A glade by our campsite at South Rolly

To the right you’ll see a picture of a glade. It’s similar to this one: (link to flickr), but with a big difference. No post-processing. This was all done in-camera.

The technique is pretty simple, and I’m not going to take credit for it – I read about it in Tony Sweet’s Fine Art Flower Photography.  To pull this off, you’ll probably need an SLR of some sort: in my case, a Nikon D200.  You’ll be messing around with menus, and you’ll need to find how to take a multiple exposure photo.  On the Nikon, it’s a menu setting (and a pretty basic one).  You set it to take two exposures, and when set:

• Take the first photo at +2ev;
• Take the second photo at +1ev, but manual focus and blur everything out;

In post processing, I did add some contrast and a light sharpening to the leaves at the bottom.  But coming right out of the camera, it needed nothing else.