Analog vs. Digital: Multiple Exposure

         Multiple exposure photography is a technique that superimposes two or more exposures or images to create a single image. There are various approaches to achieve multiple exposure using analog or digital techniques. With this series I compare and contrast both techniques and how they offer more or less control.  My subject matter consists of everyday urban life that I shot in a documentary way. With analog I used 120mm film and a Mamiya Rb67. This camera allows me to multiple expose in camera, in the same frame, without having to reload and reshoot every time to multiple expose. This offers more control over each composition. Digitally I used a Nikon D5200. Analog images were taken at the same time in the same frame. Whereas the digital images were shot separately and then overlaid together in Photoshop. Toprevent any outliers from contributing to the final compositions; Photos shot digitally used the same shutter speed, aperture, and ISO as analog. Furthermore, to exclude factors in terms of tonality, both analog and digital photos are rendered in black and white and printed on the same sheet of inkjet paper and displayed as diptychs. For both analog and digital multiple exposures I edited them correctively to achieve ideal contrast and value. With the digital images I used dodging, burning and layer masking to create a pleasing composition and to bring out certain details that get lost in the analog versions of these images.