did this one in-camera, if you can believe that. i just found out my camera has a multiple-exposure mode. i knew some nikons did this, but i didn't know that mine did..... it's not in any of the shooting modes, it's down tucked away in the image adjustment menu.
anyways, having found out about it, i wanted to try it. so i set up and took the usual picture.... big softbox camera right, 32" trigrip bouncing light back up into my face.... the usual. shot a bunch of those. then i went outside, put the camera into manual focus, put the lens as out of focus as it would go, and took a bunch of pictures of all of our neighbor's christmas lights.
came back inside (it's cold out there) and used the "image overlay" feature on the camera to drop a bunch of out-of-focus lights on top of my super-in-focus portrait.
it's cool, it takes me back to film days, when you'd click the shutter and not know what you got until you got back to the darkroom..... there's a certain mystery to it, and when you finally get your test print you're either elated or saddened by what you did or didn't capture.
i guess this brings what feels like an element of chance back into things. i could do the exact same thing in photoshop, with much greater control over it, but it's more fun this way.
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