fujica film cameras: Double Exposure...Two lenses, 19mm and 400mm...Moon = f11 at 1/125th...Church = f16 at 2 seconds
After I shot the moon with the 400mm lens, I held down the rewind button and wound the camera forward so that it would be cocked for the next shot, but the film hadn't moved at all. It stayed on the same frame. This is, of course, the old fashioned way to make a double exposure. Then I shot the church with the 19mm lens. BTW, it came as a surprise to me that the correct exposure for shooting the moon is a fast one. I did a Google search on photographing the moon to get the correct exposure. ---TWO YEARS LATER---This has just become the most PhotoShopped image I have. It started out with the simplest of intensions, because I could not get the negative to re-scan the way I wanted it. It was very hazy and off-hue at first, so I adjusted the contrast, levels, and hue. Then I got gutsy and tried a few different things in Photoshop that I'd never tried before. I added the stars with Photoshop's clone stamp tool, and I am strongly questioning whether to keep or remove them. Also, when I first scanned the image, the moon had a slightly aquamarine hue, so I lassoed the moon and changed the hue and contrast a bit. Since I couldn't draw a perfect circle with the lassoe tool, there was a slight pixelly edge to the moon, so I used a very light strength on the smudge tool to smooth out the edge. The awning above the door of the church was also lassoed and the contrast and hue were altered. --- Prints from the unShopped negative work quite nicely. The double exposure itself is unShopped.---
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