HOW TO SHOOT DOUBLE EXPOSURES

Dial in these settings for sure-fire winners when taking multiple exposures in-camera

01 ENABLE MULTIPLE EXPOSURE

Go into your Canon EOS camera’s menu and find the Multiple Exposure setting in the red camera menu, then click it and choose Enable. Then you can choose how many exposures you want to take, we set ours to 2.

04 TAKE THE FIRST EXPOSURE

Go into Live View to take the first shot. All the usual camera rules apply here so make sure your ISO is high enough so that you can get a fast shutter speed to eliminate camera shake, or use a tripod. We focused on a flower and then took the first shot.

02 ADDITIVE OR AVERAGE

Pick between Additive or Average blending modes. Additive adds more light cumulatively and may require some negative exposure compensation, while Average works out the negative exposure compensation automatically for you.

05 TAKE THE SECOND EXPOSURE

Staying in Live View, you’ll see your first exposure overlaid on the screen. This helps you to line up your second shot and get it in the right position. Once you’ve fired the shutter the two images will be fused into a single Raw file.

03 1-SHOT OR CONTINUOUS

‘1 shot only’ means that after you’ve finished your multiple exposure the multiple exposure setting will be disabled and you’ll go back to normal exposures. Set it to Continuously if you’d like to take several multiple exposures in a row.

06 FINISH IN PHOTOSHOP

Your final merged exposure will likely be a little too bright or dark, so the next step is to bring the Raw file into Photoshop. Here you can adjust and fine-tune the Exposure as well as other core settings like White Balance, Saturation and Sharpness.