Stack Film Negatives (or Photoshop Layers) for Beautifully Surreal Photos [Photography]

If you still use 35mm cameras for art use you can get a really interesting effect by stacking negatives on top of each other when developing the film. Don't worry you can also recreate the effect in Photoshop for the 99% percent of us who only have digital cameras these days.

Photography weblog PetaPixel recently highlighted the stacked negative photography of Laina Briedis combining photos of people with images of stars or cloudy skies that produce pictures that look like dreamscapes. If you use film cameras and have access to a darkroom you can do this easily by exposing two negatives at the same time on the same enlarger.

For digital images you'll just superimpose one image on top of another and erase areas one of the layers so the other image shows through and recreates the film technique. You'll probably also want to play with the opacity levels of the layers to best achieve the effect.

Create Beautifl Surreal Photographs by Stacking Your Film Negatives | PetaPixel via WonderHowTo

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~3/bGKXXM0IieY/stack-film-negatives-or-photoshop-layers-for-beautifully-surreal-photos

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