Multiple exposures

LX3 multiple exposure test, originally uploaded by jiihaa.

I was going to test today what can be done with the LX3 using the multiple exposure feature, but didn't have time for photography in the afternoon. All kinds of possibilities are worth investigating - shooting the same landscape/macro subject first in focus and then in an out-of-focus version. Of shooting a silhouette of a tree multiple times with different placements, generating an abstract rendering of tree shapes.

Or you can try shooting the same subject first with a fast shutter speed, and then with a slow one, using a panning motion. This is what I tried yesterday evening in this photo (two exposures superimposed). First I took a normal still photo of the iMac screen (showing a tv program), which I then combined in-camera with a circular panning version of the view using a longer exposure (and a smaller aperture). Although the subject is not great, this photo shows one version of the possible effects. And this is easy to do, as the LX3 screen shows the a preview of how the multiple exposures are going to look like superimposed. But I really would like to try this out in more detail with a real subject.