Last week when I was doing the light painting pictures, I got the idea that I could do something where instead of moving the lighting on the scene and selectively illuminating parts I could leave the scene and the lighting the same and move the camera. In my head the idea was that this would create an effect similar to cubist painting as I was taught it in high school (and as explained by Bill Watterson in an old Calvin and Hobbes comic strip which I'd love to link to but can't find at the moment)--the different sides and angles and perspectives on the subject visible at once.

I realize I could have taken the three pictures and layered them in the GIMP (as I don't use Photoshop) and it would have been trivially easy. But I don't think the results would have been as cool as the triple exposures taken in the camera.

The first picture is more of a straight-up triple exposure showing the basic technique. The others give something like the cubist effect I was going for.

Something like it anyway.

(Also, yes that is the same orange gerbera daisy I photographed so extensively last Sunday. It's still holding on and still being quite photogenic.)

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