multiple exposure – Jessamyn Tuttle

artwalk photobooth

So the artwalk went well, despite being so disgustingly cold that we barely made it to the (thankfully warm) studio from our car. There were I think five studios open in my building, and a surprising number of hardy souls made it out to look at art, drink wine and eat the cookies I bakedContinue reading “artwalk photobooth”

selfies

It’s always easier to work with a model, but I don’t always have one for practicing on. That’s when my remote and/or shutter delay become my friends. Here are a few self portraits I’ve taken in the last week or so, mostly as experiments for different lighting and layering techniques. Weird stuff.

experimenting

Now that I have space to work in, I’m beginning to experiment with portrait photography. I’ve been practicing on myself and on willing friends, and I’m playing both with classic portraiture and with wacky/unusual effects to create images that would do well as, say, Facebook profiles or maybe album covers. I’m currently in need ofContinue reading “experimenting”

shapes in the clouds

Looking back through my photo catalog, I found a few more multiple exposure experiments from earlier this year that I had forgotten to post. A blue sky with little fluffy floating clouds in it makes a perfect surreal backdrop for all kinds of other shapes. I like the drifting Welsh poppies and the shapes ofContinue reading “shapes in the clouds”

ghosts

Spent a little time in my new studio yesterday fussing with lights and getting reacquainted with the multiple exposure setting on my camera. The result is kind of creepy.

just messing around

For the last class I took at Photo Center NW, we took a little field trip to Counterbalance Park on lower Queen Anne, where I discovered some of the fun things that could be done with multiple exposures in the camera. I just got around to finding the settings for layered exposures in my newContinue reading “just messing around”