Beamsplitter Glass 1 on Flickr.

A second set of photos taken using the beamsplitter glass are up on flickr. This morning I walked about 10 miles and shot around 200 photos trying to get the hang of mentally composing a photograph in two directions simultaneously. I have a few new observations after this mornings walk.

First, the beamsplitter glass throws the color balance of the photo totally out of whack. You can see from this photo that there are two totally different white balances going on with the wall and the sky. I think it gives it an interesting effect, but for every picture where the mixed white balance was interesting there were three or four where it just looked weird.

Also, the photos quickly become far to busy. The best solution seems to be to always attempt to shoot one complex scene with one simple scene or texture or to layer two simple scenes on top of each other.

Exposure becomes a real issue. When I was creating the double exposures digitally the computer was combining two properly exposed scenes together. With the beamsplitter glass the image and the reflected images light intensity is all relative. It is therefore important to situate yourself so that the proper exposure of the scene and reflection are relatively similar to each other. Otherwise, you only end up with one image.

As a side note. I purchased a 6”x6” square of glass and in retrospect wish I had purchased something closer to 10”x10”. At the smaller size I have to shoot at around 50mm in order to crop out the edges of the glass.

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