Arthur Batut

[Rob MacKillop]

Rhona has a school project, in the process of research for which she came across this website about Arthur Batut:

espacebatut

I'm wondering how to do these "multiple personality" images in Elements?

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[Paul Lange]

I had a look but translate didn't work so I couldn't really get a feel for what it's all about. As for the double exposure you have 2 options. You can do it in camera if it has a double exposure setting or in Elements by having the 2 images on a separate layers and then adjusting the opacity of the layers to suit. You can also try different blend modes like overlay, screen and multiply etc.

 

[Pete Askew]

Or a very long exposure in the dark and then turn a light on a few times and get the sitter to move a bit / hands etc.

Sounds an interesting project.

 

[Rob MacKillop]

In a film camera, can you take a shot, then rewind the film and take another over the first?

 

[Pete Askew]

In many you can take a shot and recock the shutter WITHOUT winding in the film. These look like large format shots though and there only the single plate onto which you can easily make several exposures. The RZ67 it would be simple to do!

 

[Larry Bolch]

It looks like a simple blending of layers, and I don't know if Elements does layers. It would be a breeze in Photoshop.

However a morph program would do a much better job. I discovered that Denton County, Texas posts mug-shots of all those arrested. I used Abrosoft FantaMorph Abrosoft FantaMorph to produce a seamless morph of around 80 of them. Below:

[video=youtube_share;t7UfrCOw7xo]http://youtu.be/t7UfrCOw7xo[/video]

Incidentally, the music was done in-house—as hokey a country arrangement of "I'm In the Jailhouse Now", by early country singer, Jimmie Rodgers as I could manage. Fun to try to simulate a pedal steel from a keyboard. (Me playing.)

I also used it to morph a friend's three offspring into an average kid, and did a print which I left lying on the table. The mother noticed it and I asked who it was. She ran off the names of all three kids and looked up in total panic—she could recognize they were her kid, but she could not tell which one! Very funny!

I have tried a lot of morphing software, but FantaMorph is clearly the slickest that I have tried. The big thing is that it does serial morphing as above. There is a 30 day trial version that can be downloaded.

Warning—it is addictive.

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Funny. Especially the pedal steel!

 

[Larry Bolch]

I laughed my way through the whole project.

The backup-group was created with Band-in-a-Box, and used a Yamaha MU100R synthesizer module. It functions as if it contained two independent instruments, so BiaB can play one while I play the other. I used loads of mod-wheel and pitchbend to enhance the hokiness and played as legato as possible. The morph movie, titles and music were combined in Sony Creative's Vegas Movie Studio. The title overlays were done in Corel Paint Shop Pro. The mugshots were all over the map for white balance, so I tried as much as was humanly possible to achieve a somewhat standard skin tone in all of them via Photoshop.

Fun project!