{"id":2955,"date":"2014-05-01T20:34:26","date_gmt":"2014-05-01T19:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/?p=2955"},"modified":"2014-05-01T17:10:59","modified_gmt":"2014-05-01T16:10:59","slug":"multi-camera-composites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/?p=2955","title":{"rendered":"Multi-Camera Composites"},"content":{"rendered":"

I came across an interesting image-producing technique a few months ago, the “multi-camera composite,” on the Flickr page of Tony Kemplen. \u00a0[Sidebar: Tony Kemplen is known for his “52 film cameras in 52 weeks<\/a>” project, which he started in 2010 and is now in his fourth year.] \u00a0The idea behind the multi-camera composite is, you take multiple pictures from the same spot, using different cameras, and then stitch them all together using Photoshop. \u00a0Here is one of his examples:<\/p>\n

\"St.<\/a><\/p>\n

So I thought I’d give this a shot myself. The challenge, of course, is to find a good subject. You usually find a good subject when you happen to NOT be carrying 4 or 5 cameras around with you. And vice versa. Also, when you take a few photos with different cameras, you have to fill up all the rolls before you get them back, and remember what you were up to when you started.<\/p>\n

So here is what I came up with. I tried photographing along the length of an old building in town. But I think it’s better if you don’t leave gaps.<\/p>\n

\"Building<\/a><\/p>\n

From left to right, the first, second and fourth camera are from a 1950-ish Kodak Retina 1a and some inexpensive Kodak film; the third photo is a 1957-ish Ricoh 500 with Fuji Superia film; and the photo farthest to the right is from a mid-1990s Ricoh Kr-5 Super II, using TX100 film. So another option was to grab just a couple of photos, and see how that would look:<\/p>\n

\"Building<\/a><\/p>\n

The photos are from a 1957-ish Ricoh 500 with Fuji Superia film; and the b&w photo is from a 1950s Kodak Duaflex II with old, expired Dynapan brand film.<\/p>\n

I tried the same thing at another location, from a bridge spanning the Adyar river. For the first one, the color photo is taken with a 1957-ish Ricoh 500 with Fuji Superia film; and the black and white photo is taken with an early 1990s Ricoh Kr-5 Super II using Kodak TX-100 film. So yes, the camera with the black and white film is almost 40 years newer!<\/p>\n

\"Bend<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Bend<\/a><\/p>\n

In the second photo, the color photos are both taken with a 1950s Kodak Retina 1a using cheap Kodak 400 film (they look different because I changed the light settings); and the b&w photo is a 1950s Kodak Duaflex II with old, expired Dynapan brand film, from “who knows when.”<\/p>\n

For a few other combinations, you can check out this album on Flickr.<\/a><\/p>\n

I’d be curious if anyone else has ever tried this.<\/p>\n

There is a similar technique I’d like to try which involves taking a bunch of photos in rapid succession, all slightly different, and then mashing them together. \u00a0I did one of those by mistake using a film camera – a Canon FTb I was testing out got stuck at the end of the roll of film (it would no longer advance). \u00a0As a result, the photos I was trying to snap of this guy washing his cows all ended up on top of each other.<\/p>\n

\"Accidental<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I came across an interesting image-producing technique a few months ago, the “multi-camera composite,” on the Flickr page of Tony Kemplen. \u00a0[Sidebar: Tony Kemplen is known for his “52 film cameras in 52 weeks” project, which he started in 2010 and is now in his fourth year.] \u00a0The idea behind the multi-camera composite is, you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1303],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genphotography"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2955"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2956,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2955\/revisions\/2956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}