Sep 10 2007
The Orton Effect
The Orton Effect, originally discovered by Canadian Michael Orton consists of overlaying 2 exposures of the same subject (with the camera in the same position). The first exposure is in clear focus, while the second, overexposed with 2 f-stops and deliberately out of focus.
This particular effect dates back to film era. At that time, to achieve this effect, the camera was positioned on the tripod, focus was set on the subject the the shutter fired the first exposure. Without advancing the film for the next frame, manually the subject was put out of focus, eposure time increased and a second time the shutter was fired, exposing the same frame. The amount of effect can be controlled during the second exposure (the more out of focus, the more powerful the effect). Not any film camera allows multiple exposures on the same frame, therefore, not everybody expressed their creativity this way. The final result was a picture that appear to have been taken from a dream world (focused subject which diffuses colors in the background).
Nowdays, you don’t need expensive photographic gear to replicate the same result. Here is how to recreate the Orton Effect from a single exposure via digital post processing tools (like Adobe Photoshop:)
Fig. 1 – Original Photograph
Let’s open the picture from Figure 1 in Adobe Photoshop (does not matter the version).
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Step 1: Duplicate the original
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Step 2: Overexpose the duplicate
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Step 3: Duplicate the “Screen” Layer
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Step 4: Merging down “Screen copy” layer
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Step 5: Duplicate the Layer resulted from Step 4 (yes, still named “Screen”)
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Step 6: Underexpose the “Screen copy” layer resulted from previous step.
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Step 7: Gaussian Blur
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Step 8 (optional): Add more color saturation
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Final result. The Orton Effect image:
Fig. 2 – The Orton Effect (mouse-over to see the differences from original)
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