The orton effect

The orton effect involves one out of focus and one in focus image sandwiched together that gives us a glowing effect. This technique was first used by Michael  Orton. He used one sharp image overexposed by two stops and the other out of focus imaged overexposed by one stop and clubbed them together as a single image.

The results are stunning.

This image,

Becomes this,

when the orton effect is uesed.

The steps for achieving this will be discussed in  the next post.

Cross processing - a few examples

Cross  processing is  devoloping the films deliberately in wrong/different chemicals that result in variation of colors and contrasts that are not naturally found on  the location. In the digital age cross processing can produce a lot of interesting effects and appearances not possible otherwise.

For example giving a vintage look to an old building, a haunted look  to a deserted one or just make a simple photograph look very interesting can all be done when we understand the basis of cross processing in  digital photography.

Lets see a few examples of cross processed images now. In a later post we will discuss how to bring about these effects using photo editing softwares.