House of Sticks and Chairs
Canterbury, September 2013
This afternoon Milo, Gabriel & I decided to try something different. I've seen some very effective photographs recently making use of image-stacking to include the same person several times in the frame. My crack team of blip-children were on the case in no time, first of all reassembling their den of sticks and chairs in a more photogenic location. Milo tells me they had previously made this fort so many times, but it always collapsed. The chairs were there to stop the sticks from falling over.
We worked out some poses for Milo & Gabriel which would not intersect too much (which makes the post-processing easier) and took three separate pictures. The camera was on a tripod, of course, with focus and exposure set to manual to keep the frames identical. Haven't done this before in Photoshop, but a bit of quick online learning and we were away…
Fujifilm X-E1 with 14mm f/2.8 lens, Gitzo Mountaineer tripod, 1/60 sec, f/2.8, ISO 1600, Lightroom, Photoshop, Silver Efex Pro 2
