Orton technique using multiple exposure in D200

[Justin]

Hi, I had a play last night and found how you could do this in-camera on the D200 using the multiple exposure setting.

I haven't got any results worth posting (bleach bottle anyone?), but here's the process -

Set multiple exposure to 2 and leave auto-gain on

Take photo 1 in-focus and well-exposed (flash if needed)
Take photo 2 OOF and no flash

I also found it worked and created a softer image if you set multiple exposure to 4, 1st in focus and the 2nd, 3rd and 4th progressively out of focus.

Anyone else tried this or want to and show some results?

[JordanP]

Never thought of using it that way - thanks Justin. I will give it a go this week.

[Yi-P]

Great one, but it wont work on my D70


I'd go with PP or just snap my Soft-2 filter in front of the lens

[Justin]

Hi Yi-p, yes it will you just have to merge the exposures in photoshop -

take two photos as described above, copy the blurry one over as a new layer onto the first. Change the layer blend mode to 'multiply' from 'normal' then change opacity as desired.

Or another technique is to take one image, gaussian blur a copy (5-50px depending on how soft you want it) then follow the process above for original + blurred. I've filched some of this info from dpreview threads in d1/d2 forum, search for 'orton' there, someone has even done a PS action.

[Yi-P]

I used to have some similar workflow as you described.

Similar blurr effect, with the added soft lights and shadows:

[Justin]

very nice - and not a bad photo for the fred hollows thing...