English

Multiple exposure of turning racecar.

Alternative forms

• multiple-exposure

Noun

multiple exposure ‎(plural multiple exposures)

1. (photography) A photograph produced by exposing film or some other photosensitive surface to focused light more than one time, usually by opening and closing a camera shutter repeatedly, thereby generating a picture consisting of superimposed images.
   • 1972 July 11, "Eclipse in New York (photo caption)," Victoria Advocate (Texas, USA), p. 1 (retrieved 11 Aug. 2011):

     ECLIPSE IN NEW YORK — this multiple exposure shows stages of the solar eclipse, starting at top left, as seen in New York City Monday afternoon.

   • 2008 Feb. 18, Dave Johnson, "How to Make Multiple Exposures," PC World (retrieved 11 Aug. 2011):

     [W]ith a film camera . . . to take a good multiple exposure . . . your camera needed to have a special control that prevented the film from advancing while you captured each frame in the series. . . . These days, creating a multiple exposure digitally is a snap.

2. (photography) The process of producing such a photograph.
   • 1948 Sep. 26, Jacob Deschin, "Two Kinds of Work: Mental ‘Views’ Contrasted With Pictures of Fact," New York Times, p. X13:

     Mr. Telberg-von-Teleheim's method is that of multiple exposure, either in the camera when taking the picture, or in the enlarger when making the print.

See also

• double exposure
• time exposure

References

• multiple exposure at OneLook Dictionary Search