Haunted Portrait

The Unusual Effects of Multiple Exposures Are Indisputably Eerie. Caroline Schmidt Explains How You Can Capture Your Own Haunting Portrait Using This in-camera Technique

CELEBRATING ALL HALLOWS’ EVE is a licence for trick-or-treating, frightful costumes and – best of all – creative photography. eerie long exposures, low-key portraits and candle-lit still-lifes are some techniques worth exploring but, out of them all, multiple exposures suit the spooky spiritual essence of Halloween the most. and, did i mention – there’s no need for any Photoshop trickery.

A camera’s multiple-exposure facility works by blending the brightest parts of each image, rendering each shot as a low-opacity frame layered on top of the other. Most cameras let you merge up to ten images, but you’ll likely get the best effects by shooting and merging two or three frames.