The beginning images of Digital Darrell in a tree about to drop a flower pot on the other Digital Darrell, and the wife in a cooking pot, were double exposures with a section of each picture masked off. A normal exposure of half the frame was made, then the mask and subject moved to the other side of the frame, and another normal exposure made. It's like two pictures pasted together, but on one frame of “film.”

(Of course, since the pictures were made in 1982, Digital Darrell was merely... uh... Darrell; as evidenced by there being film in his camera at the time.)

Using multiple exposures, along with masks, allows you to do some weird things. You can buy masks with all sorts of shapes, which allows pictures like my wife in the pot shot. (LOL)

One form of multiple exposure where auto gain works fine is an effect called “ghosting.” (See image at right)

In the multiple exposure, your subject is standing in front of a background that will get a full exposure by the end of the shots. But, your subject will only stay in the image for a portion of the shots. This allows the background to show through the subject since it gets less exposure than the background. The subject looks like a somewhat transparent object or person. Thus the name “ghosting.”

It is especially entertaining to have two people stand beside each other, with the arm of one person around the shoulders of another, then have one of the subjects leave the session before all the shots are made. It then looks like someone is hugging a transparent person. An example of this is in Figure 6, where one of my kids looks like the invisible man.

Be sure and use a tripod for exact registration of your multiple exposures, unless you are masking in a way that doesn't require it!

Use the multiple exposure powers of your D2x to make special images that will be interesting now, and 60-years from now.

Then you'll be known as that somewhat strange grandmother or grandfather who had that weird camera that could see through people.

Isn't being a digital Nikonian fun?