mixed media, combining live stills with models

double exposure has been used to do lots of interesting things. The MOST common is the over done, over wrought "person trapped in a glass" and "person trapped under a jar" type stuff. Or to make a photo of someone dressed up in charecter as say an elf, and then put them into a macro shot of grass and weeds to make them super tiny elf...

What i am curious is, can standard double exposure work be used to combine a still shot of an action scene with a scene of a model?

In The Dollhouse - The English Group

Take a look at these, these are posed people. The makeup in a few is a give away and the hand movement in 1 says real model. However my idea is, how HARD would it be to take a close in shot of a doll house dining room, and place out two live models on a black screen and black objects spaced out to be in the dining room chairs, and then combine them as a double exposure?

or would that necessitate the use of photo software to do correctly? Yes before anyone asks, I am a fan of the original Star Trek special effects. Sometimes balls of multi colored plastic film wrappers with tiny lights shot through can out do modern cgi.

What i am curious is, can standard double exposure work be used to combine a still shot of an action scene with a scene of a model?

Short answer - no!

Not convincingly.

Doesn't matter if you use a black background for one of the shots, the effect is always going to be 'ghost-like' with one exposure showing through the other.

or would that necessitate the use of photo software to do correctly?

Yes.

Sometimes balls of multi colored plastic film wrappers with tiny lights shot through can out do modern cgi.

Isn't part of the attraction of early Star Trek the comically obvious special FX?

Double exposure? No. Composite? Yes.

These require two images and a mask/overlay. To do it well, you need to carefully match the lighting, color and shading of the two images. Then you mask off everything except the model in the live image and lay it over the model image.

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Double exposure? No. Composite? Yes.

 

These require two images and a mask/overlay. To do it well, you need to carefully match the lighting, color and shading of the two images. Then you mask off everything except the model in the live image and lay it over the model image.

d7500 can combine up to 20 images into a standard "double exposure" type image. I was thinkin just 2.

I understand the "keep the lighting the same for both images." I even understand the "keep the light coming from the same point for both images" trick.

Went looking at lego sets.... Man it was bad. just avengers and some ninja crap.. What happened to Lego town?

Did find a wierd toy for little kids.. Some kind of female robot kid charecter.... with a flying jockstrap as an accessory toy.. Still cant figure that one out.

Double exposure isn't what you want. You only want selected parts of the second image to overlay first. You don't want to see the first image behind the portion of the second image that you want see.

If you try it, I think you will see what I'm talking about pretty quickly.

"double exposure has been used to do lots of interesting things. The MOST common is the over done, over wrought "person trapped in a glass" and "person trapped under a jar" type stuff. Or to make a photo of someone dressed up in charecter as say an elf, and then put them into a macro shot of grass and weeds to make them super tiny elf..."

These are not done with in camera double exposures.