Steve Matteo Photography

There's still at least one photography technique that film can do and digital cameras can't, and that' s a double exposure. While you can take two image files and combine them on a computer, you can't do it in the digital camera, at least not yet. This photo of the Chicago Skyline was shot on film, the first exposure was of the moon and on the same frame, the city exposure was made. Here the moon appears between the Willis, formerly Sears Tower and the John Hancock Building when in reality, it was in the eastern sky. Getting the images to fit nicely in the composition is the tricky part. It's a fact that the exposure on the moon is ISO 100 at F16 and 1/125 of a second so you'll just need to take a proper reading for the second exposure. I shot the image of the moon with a 300 mm lens and the skyline with a 28 mm to complete my double exposure. When I'm not working as a wedding photographer in Chicago, I shoot features as often as possible.

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