This tipster is about a technique which I call "High Quantity Multi Exposure" or short HQME. I assume that people have already done something like that before me but I couldn't find any information about it.
Since I am relatively new to Lomography, I don’t have much of experience but I understood that it is all about creative ideas that are put into action.
This tipster is about a technique which I call “High Quantity Multi Exposure” or short HQME. I assume that people have already done something like that before me but I could’nt find any information about it.
And this is how it works:
You measure (or estimate) the necessary exposure time for the film you have loaded. You divide this number by the the shutter speed your camera offers and the result is the amount of multiple exposures you will need to end up with a (roughly) correct exposed piece of film at the end.
The only thing you have to do now is pressing the trigger…. again and again and again and again and… you know where this leads to.
Since I did not know if this would work at all, I tried it only once so far and here is the result:
I estimated (or rather guessed) the necessary exposure time for the ISO 400 film at f11 to be around one second. 1s divided by 1/125 s (the shutter speed of my Holga) yields 125. So I just pressed the trigger 125 times in a row.
I will definitely take more pictures like that and I would love to see yours. So please post a link in the comments and maybe you want to tag your picture with HQME.
35 comments
jblaze823
Cool, keep the experiments coming...
kylethefrench
amazing
awesomesther
Wow. 125 times! Did your finger feel sore? :p
bryson
So you press the shutter 125 times before advancing to the next frame? :)
phalanx
@awesomesther: no way, I have a well trained index finger due to my daily Lomo-workout :)
@bryson: exactly.
leeemur
This is awesome! I need to try this!
seaing
Wow, this sounds interesting! :) I think I'll try this later.
superlighter
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16...woof! I'm tired. hahaha! however,cool tips,
pfenya
very interesting idea! I probably would have lost count several times till getting to 125 or something in the neighborhood ;-)
jimhalpert
goldie
Amazing, a must try...
stouf
Very very cool !
yattering
I hope, with a cable release its going to be more easier!
phalanx
@jimhalpert: No, I put the camera on one of these boxes where you can take out a newspaper for money.
A tripod and a cable release might help getting less blurr in the background.
odjur
Oh wow, I would have never guessed you'd have to take 125 pictures..
Going to trie this one though!
kiteflyin
This is too cool.
seaing
I just tried this, and even though my photo didn't come out too well, I'm most definitely going to do this again :) http://www.lomograph(…)os/12357872
beni
really great!!!
iamliza
crumpy
awesome. I'm surprised sun didn't come up and ruin your calculations by the time you'd pressed the shutter 125 times! lol. very cool though. it almost seems so obvious an idea, it's a wonder people dont do this much already. well done
jaguarwomon
Cool idea!!
What if you used a different fillm speed?
phalanx
If you use a different film speed, you have to take this into account in the guestimation-process. If I had loaded ISO 200 film the ammount of exposures would have been 250 and 500 for ISO 100 respectively.
pangmark
Awesome! Let's start a movement. HQME everyone!
itsdebraanne
see this is why living a suburban life is so boring!! i need to take more pictures!
itsdebraanne
Update: how did you do this without the shutter mechanism failing on you?!
i tried to copy your technique and my holga broke around 20 times oh pressing the shutter release button. luckily, a bought a new camera. (pls respond)
phalanx
I don't know, I did nothing else than pressing the shutter again and again, why it didn't fail is hard to to tell. What kind of failiure did your shutter show?
wuxiong
It's fun, but I will never try this Because you have a better choice, simply use the B shutter is a lot easier and save time. Besides what if you forget the times when you triggering the shutter.? Like you don't remember whether you pressed 75 or 95 times? you easily get confused..<:)
eskimofriend
amazing indeed! 125 times wow
nation_of_pomation
This is definitely a nice effect. It seems like, if I did the math right, it'd be a lot easier to get shorter slow shutter shots out of a Holga with this, or with IR photography or something.
naxee
phalanx
Hey, there is still discussion going on… I like that :)
In my opinion this is not an alternative to B shutter in means of similar results, it is just another technique which yields very unique pictures, you would never be able to get in B-mode ;)
For example:
This is a HQME with my Holga (250 clicks)
http://www.lomograph(…)os/13362562
This is a picture from the very same spot at the very same time captured with my LC-A+ (~1s)
http://www.lomograph(…)os/12418984
…and I can strongly recommend to have a look at the HQME pics of @mephisto19 http://www.lomograph(…)HQME#photos completely different from mine and super-awesome :)
phalanx
…oh and I forgot to mention the user @vicuna I love his interoretation of this technique :)
rachaelbethan
brilliant! and the result is gorgeous!! i cannot wait to give this a try!
mafiosa
I've seen some great results using this technique, and I can't wait to try it myself. Thank you for sharing!
skrutt
Cool thing! I will try this some night! :D