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Double trouble

Learn how to create double exposure images in-camera, with Wendy Evans

At most camera clubs, there will be some stick-in-the-mud film user telling everyone how they used to create double exposures by not winding the film on and how easy and creative it all was without having to mess about in Photoshop.

Let's put a stop to all that film-was-great nonsense (it wasn't) by coughing dismissively and pointing out that it's now easier to do it with your digital camera. All you need is one that supports multiple exposures and an idea of two things that you want to combine.

The best way of doing this is to make sure one of your exposures features a prominent silhouette that the other image can go inside, but with multiple blending modes available, you can mix things up and also have a silhouette overlay itself on a colourful scene.

You can even combine more than two exposures, or save the individual shots and combine a different shot later with your most successful silhouette shot.

When you start overlaying numerous images, there's a huge variety of creative results you can achieve from the same few scenes. As we said, digital photographers do it better.

Multiple exposures

The first step is to go into your camera menu system, look for something called Multiple exposure mode and turn this on. Next, decide on how many shots you want in the combined exposure. I'd recommend starting with two until you get used to how the process works, then be more creative.

Overlay mode