Inspired #9

Multiple exposure detail and inspiration from others.

Hello and welcome to Inspired, a weekly email for my paid subscribers. In this series I want to explore topics which I hope might spark some inspiration for your own photography. I will talk about my thought process for creating images, both in the field and in post processing. The posts will be linked in some way to the monthly challenges, hopefully giving you all lots of food for thought.

There is nothing like a field of yellow daffodils to usher in the joys of spring, so this morning I thought I would head to my local churchyard to see if I could find some. As this would be my final post on intimate landscape and detail photography I wanted to write a little bit about capturing detail using multiple exposures and I felt the daffodils would be a great subject. This project has been inspired by the work of Mark Cornick and in particular his body of work titled ‘String Theory’

Having found a lovely carpet of daffodils I decided to use my macro lens to photograph them. I wanted to create a soft, dreamy feel so instead of using straight shots I decided to experiment with two shot multiple exposures in camera, working with the shapes of the flowers. My idea was to produce a small body of work that I could combine into a panel.

Multiple exposure photography is not something that I do very often but I wanted to get out of my comfort zone and stretch my creativity. The idea I had for the images was very simple but the execution was not as straight forward.