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Question:

I was looking for tips on the Internet on multiple exposures. I recently got a camera that can do this and I've looked for tips and gotten some good and some bad ones. Question: If you adjust the speed of the film to the number of multiple exposures, then how do you measure exposure. Do you stop down to allow for this or shoot a balanced frame for all of exposures?

Answer:

I assume that you read my multiple exposure article http://www.garryblack.com/multitips.htm

Once you have adjusted the film speed to the number of exposures that you want to use, then all you have to do is just meter and shoot the scene. Don't even think that you've done anything to the camera's controls. In other words you don't do anything different than you normally would (over or under expose depending on the tone of your subject matter). The only thing that you might have to watch out for is; if it is sunny and you are using a fast film and doing quite a few multiple exposures, you may have to stop down (F16 or F22) just to get the shutter speed into a usable range for your camera.