Multiple Exposures

[kully]

Hallo,

I know, I really should just try this out but I thought I'd ask some advice before wasting a roll.

I want to take some photos in town and get rid of the people.

Is this as simple as saying if the meter reads 1/125 @ f/5.6 I can take 4 exposures on one frame at 1/500?

or 16 exposures at 1/2000?

Thanks,
kully

 

[RML]

You could do it with just a single exposure if your exposure time is long enough. An exposure of a few minutes will do. 🙂

 

[FrankS]

Short answer to your question: yes! The more short exposures which add up to the correct exposure, the more invisible the non-static objects (people, cars) are.

 

[ClaremontPhoto]

1 Look into pinhole photography, depending on light mine can be several minutes exposure. People do not feature at all.

2 And what movie makers do. Photograph at early morning. There are no people.

 

[kully]

Thanks for the replies, I got the reassurance I wanted.

Jon - unfortunately I start work rather early and I'm too much of a lazy ******* at weekends. I will try pinhole at some point though.

Cheers Frank and RML (unfortauntely I can't get long enough exposures - no ND filters.🙁 ).