35 Surreal Examples of Multiplicity Photography
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By Bhanu Ahluwalia
Multiplicity is a photography technique in which the same person is photographed from different angles and directions and then the bunch of photographs are digitally re-mastered in Photoshop showing clones of the person doing different things all in one photo.
Today we present 35 Surreal Examples of Multiplicity Photography to inspire you. Photography and Photoshop go hand in hand. Multiplicity Photography is the real test of your patience as you may have to work for hours to get the right shots mainly because of different angles, props and clothes used in pre-production. And finally when you have the images, you have to work on different techniques (blending, layering, curving etc) in Photoshop to paste all the images in one single photo. Enjoy.
Surreal Examples of Multiplicity Photography
what you don’t know can indeed hurt you
We hate it when our friends become successful
Cleo and her 21 brothers & sisters
Multiplicity – Meanies x2, Victim x1
Dental Multiplicity – Self Portrait
365 Days – Day 71 – Hippy Tree Huggers
Multiplicity in Redwood Forest
Violence at Work (Multiplicity)
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Great collection
Great
super
Not at all possible to live with out any commend for this !!!!
whoaugh ………..
Wonderful, how much fun is this!
Camera, Photoshop, fun!
Some really good pieces! Now I want to go straight to Curry’s and buy that damn Nikon D90 DSLR camera to make some wicked Photos!
D90??? No way man, is a piece of crap! Go for D300!
you are aware that the d90 and d300 have literally the same exact image resolution, megapixels, sensor size, etc..right??
I would recommend a lot the sony alpha 600 guys, but it’s only a suggestion.
D90 rocks. It feels solid.
Very true
very fun thanks a lot
Schizophrenic.
Nice !!!
We’ve made a video with this type of operation :
http://www.vimeo.com/10690396
I did my picture too
haha! nice post.. I used to love making those in design school, now I’m motivated to do some more!
Quite good photography.good technique… Impressive…
That bboy picture is actually of me!
Nice collection. I especially like “Cleo and her 21 brothers & sisters”
Oh, I remember that movie, with Michael Keaton! This list of photos is ALMOST as good as that movie! Great! :)
Martin Liebscher is a great photograph in this type
m-liebscher.de/familie.htm
Great collection, love it!
Wicked! I am so going to try this :) Thank you!
another one :)
http://www.jasiak.org/montaz/escher.jpg
Check out mine:)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mac-xime/sets/72157622444816067/
another one:
http://imgur.com/PuSwH.jpg
i have one to submit to rival the collection!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/billyquach/4585270189/sizes/l/
i love noupe by the way.
Awesome post!!
I want to do something similar with photos for my band and this has provided me with some serious inspiration!
Great collection! Here’s one more :) http://www.flickr.com/photos/agraulich/2465710400/
Great collection! I love seeing images of this type.
Amazing! So tempted to have a go myself!
Awesome collection! Shared!
That’s some pretty funny stuff. I’d have to try it someday.
Great collection !
Great Multiplicity photos!! I have always wanted to try one of these, and maybe now I will that I’ve seen these great inspirational ones.
If you want to see some cool multiplicity photos check out Cameron Jinks, these photos where taken over 3 years where he gained weight, lost weight and changed his facial appearance.
http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/yourgallery/artist_profile/Cameron+Jinks/42259.html
Its Great
Superb stuff!! I’ve been playing with this idea recently. Working out the shadows is the tricky part.
Great!!
awesome ideas for photographers, i really like your collection and one of my friend also trying to get like this amazing results, he will be more inspired. thanks for sharing
Haha I made some things like this back in highschool a number of years ago! Fun to create!!
Amazing collection! I like the last one – how did they photoshop everything so nicely together?
Here’s one i did about a year ago.
http://yonderboy.com/images/30Joels.JPG
Great stuff! Going to give this a try.
fine & fine
look like & then…………………..
This is creativity. Absolutely amazing! Gonna try this.
all photos is funny. i save for 4 pictures above
These are great examples! I tried one of my own a year or so ago with kids: http://www.flickr.com/photos/rasch/2874001333/in/set-72157607405026393/
The “Violence at Work” reminds me of Fight Club.
Great Job with Imagination!
is this suitable for add to the collection?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dharmastyle/3348121738/sizes/l/
The Last Supper: http://www.flickr.com/photos/benjaminwilson/4606146043/sizes/o/in/set-72157623935113125/
So you shot a base plate image, then individual shots and then photoshopped them in. Big whoop. If the concepts were more interesting, i.e. told some sort of story or had some sort of point, I could look past it. But there is nothing more here than technique, and not a very original or difficult one.
lolool… so many ideas. so awesome.
Superrr! I copied some photos and I will save them :)
Check out Irish photographer Rob O’ Connor. His recent work is incredible and features multiplicity
http://www.rocshot.com
Hi all,
you have seen nothing yet.
This guy took panos with himself hundreds of times in it:
http://www.m-liebscher.de/net/pages/familie/bilder/Suntorybig.jpg
More panos like this to be found here:
http://www.m-liebscher.de/net/familie.htm
English language video with a few explanations:
http://www.m-liebscher.de/shows/09creteil01.htm
3500 images, 3 days shooting, 6 months after-processing
Jan
Great photos and idea!! Thanks for sharing :)
Great collections :) thanks for sharing
this is mine :D
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3568892/snowfunfinal.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/39275491@N00/4193907666/
These were unbelievable. Would love to be able to produce such amazing photos, but just have a little point and shoot.
I dont usually do a lot of commenting but why not do a slightly shorter list and weed out some of the ones with the really crappy photoshopping jobs. It would keep the list hq, not just having every example one can find.
Wow, too many people. And most (all?) aren’t even Chinese.
Wow, too many people. And most (all?) aren’t even Chinese.
Wow.Yeah.Cool.[yeah right this is so not cool]
Also see these:
http://www.denbompa.be/photography/multiple-me/
http://www.denbompa.be/photography/multiple-me-2/
Wonderful photos!
Heres another cool one I found
http://www.flickr.com/photos/7906561@N06/4702025398/
The first one, I know her..or OF her should I say because she takes awesome pics! I am a fan of her collection on flickr :) Her name is Rebekkah and she’s from Iceland. Fabulous pics!
nice all is very cool i like everyone.
GENIAL
cool!!! Know of any tutorials on how to do it? :D
This is so much easier than you think.
I did this: http://bit.ly/c6debS in less than five minutes.
Third time I had ever used PhotoShop: Beginner.
Tutorial I made for my brother: http://bit.ly/98nSBO
good luck!
leave me a question on the YT page if you want.
Wow those are indeed surreal. I love the first one very creative idea using the mirror image! I wish I was talented enough to come up with these types of things on my own but now that I’ve seen some of them I might give em a try just to test out my own photography and editing skills.
I have made this one, UP :) …..
I am a bedbug and I find this rude.
This was already done to death a decade ago.
These are always fun. I did it with my son a while back.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/29969681@N04/4524615165/
Check this one out! http://www.flickr.com/photos/avdzingle/3443541136/in/set-72157606972417156/