REFRACTED LANDSCAPES
During high school, I used a manually-adjustable film camera. At the time, I discovered that I could create multiple exposures by cocking the camera’s shutter without advancing the film. When doing so, previously solid appearing subjects (like my girlfriend here) became translucent. I never knew what the final composition would look like until developing the film.
With my current digital camera, I can similarly create multiple exposures. This technology allows me to see a ghost image of the previous exposure superimposed on the current view in the camera’s LCD screen. Thus, I seek to compose a new blended image from the two. The images in this exhibit reflect recent experiments with this technique.
One day, I may teach myself to make digital multiple exposures in Photoshop. Until then, this quasi-analog approach compels me to imagine the final composition while in the field. In the process, the solidity of the world around me becomes attenuated.
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