It's been raining here for the last week until today, and Harry and I have been mostly unable to be out and about as much as he would have liked. I spent the time geotagging old images, which included films from the sixties and seventies.
I found some places where I took multiple images from the same perspective, more or less, that I combined as overlapping layers as I have been doing with digital photos lately. Obviously, in 1978 this would have been far beyond my humble capabilities and difficult for even the most skilled technician. (There is a reason why there was only one Jerry Uelsmann, and he worked in B&W!)
The pictures shown here are on the beach outside the White Point Beach Resort in Hunts Landing, Nova Scotia, in July 1978.
These were all shot on Kodak 35mm Vericoler S, most probably with a Canon Ftb.
Getting the individual elements in registration was incredibly difficult and only partially successful. (#1 and #3 OK, #2 less so)
What a great way to spend all those rainy days we've just gone through. This was an interesting read. I really like #3 the most.
#3 only had two components, and the lighting helped get very good registration. If I took away the boxes etc and cropped a bit. I might be able to convince you it was a straight photograph.
What a great project to pursue Andrew. I find #1 overly distracting but #2 really works for me with its soft, artsy feel.
#1 has nine layers. The yellow lines serve to separate the images and hide difficult transitions. The rocks weren't moving, but the surf certainly was.
I agree, though, it is a little busy.
#2 has seven layers. My original thought the other day was that it might smooth out like a long-exposure image. That's not what happened.
Photoshop's auto-align feature did not work at all on #1 and #2. I had good luck doing this manually on #1 and less luck on #2. Maybe this has something to do with it being relatively grainy (good for 1978.) It might have been keying on the moving surf rather than the stationary rocks or horizon.
A tripod would have helped. Mine was in the car trunk. It might as well have been in Pennsylvania. I am reminded of W. Eugene Smith's statement about electronic flash being available light but only if you have it with you.
Auto-align worked fine on #3, but since there were only two nearly identical images it was a lot less difficult.