Double Exposure
Melissa Bissel
Melissa Bissel (bottom left) is an in-home documentary and lifestyle photographer who lives in Massachusetts. She states in her blog, “I take seriously the privilege of being welcomed into your home as your family documentarian. Together we will capture the memories of what makes you, your family and the life you have created together, its very own kind of special.”
She has experimented with double exposure as shown on the top right.
Double exposure is the art of immerging two or more images and creating an overlay to create different abstract and creative images. Most artists use Photoshop for this art form as they are able to use blending, opacity and exposure levels to properly adjust each overlay.
Melissa clearly has explored this theme as her project powerfully show evidence that some layers are clearer than the others.
Planning
Contact sheets
This is my favourite outcome, I have called it “Madness” as it powerfully depicts different emotions; one is still, calm, the other is laughing and the other one seems to be between laughing and crying, sort of like the Pseudobulbar affect.
I have chosen this image as my final outcomes because it successfully relates to the mood board and Melissa as both our models are female; the image is in black and white and there is at least 3 evidences of multi-exposure.
This image was taken using a Sony Alpha 380 DLSR.
It was taken using 100 ISO and a 1/160 shutter speed.
These images were shot using 2-point lighting; one to the side of the subject and one facing the background in order to clarify, lighten and remove any shadows on the picture.
It has been edited using Snapseed and photoshop in order to:
•Sharpen and increase details so the image is clear.
•Turn the image in to black and white.
•Create the double exposure