SOME PHOTOSHOP INSPIRATION

MULTIPLE EXPOSURES IN PHOTOSHOP - IN THE ROUND

By Andrew Haysom

Layering multiple photographic exposures in Photoshop to create a single composition can be quite simple and effective.

The technique I want to describe today is often attributed to Catalan photographer Pep Ventosa and is called “In the Round”. It involves picking a subject (in the two examples I’ll use today, I’ve chosen a tree and a fountain), then walking around the subject (360 degrees if that is possible) taking photos of it all the way round, then blending the photographs together.

How many exposures you take as you walk around your subject is up to you, it also depends on the subject. In the first example of the tree, I actually took over fifty photos, but chose to only use twenty of them, in the second example of the fountain I took only five.

The more images you use, the more “impressionist” or painterly your image will look, you see the tree looks much more painterly, while the fountain takes on more of the look of a traditional multiple exposure.