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PHOTOGRAPHY
Camouflage
It’s not double exposure
Double exposure ~ one of the creative techniques of the film photography era.
I was using an SLR camera with a TTL meter during those years. As far as I’ve remembered, a -1 stop was required for every overlap shot to achieve a corrected exposure at the end, or otherwise resulting in overexposure.
On the day we travelled to The Peak in 2003, while I was looking for our happy hour restaurant, I discovered this. Wasn’t it a naturally generated double or even triple exposure image?
Obviously, I was standing outside a full-glazed window. But the illusion of exterior mix fascinated with the interior. Slow motion waiter in the evening sunlight, a ceiling height lamp post under a starry sky, together with cityscape ready for the twilight…
I remember how I was mesmerised by all those illusions, even though it was more than twenty years ago. My first camouflage image, I named it.
It’s so easy to discover the irony of modern high-rise right next to those of the post-war period architecture. Especially in a small city like ours with over 70-year-old…
