This one isn't a perfect example, but it's close enough. I had a very hard time finding any at all. My question is - Is there a specific name for this style, also when was it popular? I'm just looking for examples to create my own as humorous gifts. Thanks!
Posted Jan 26, 2012, 7:08 PM UTC
AWESOME
I think that these were popular during the 80s, and the classic form would have been an in camera double exposure, so one image would have been shot on a pure black background.
At least that is how wedding photographers did it when I worked at a prolab in the late 90s. I'm not aware of any process in the labs that a senior protrait photographer would have used that could create this, except for a custom enlarger print, which would be way out of the budget.
A google search for "double exposure portrait" gives more artsy results. If someone has a "how to shoot portraits" book from the 80s, you would probably find exactly how photographers described it at the time.
I'm really please that you mentioned "humorous gift". I was scared for you.
Ugly :P
I don't know if there's an official name for it (there might be, I dunno). I just call it cheesy as all hell.
Olan Mills popularized the multi-layered portrait thing. Google it, Cry.
This style of portraiture, once relegated to Sears and other home grown photographic studios, has come to be known simply as perfection.
tasteless?
Gay, lol
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More specifically, i'm looking for the close-up overlay
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This. I never understood why people like it, but it sells. No accounting for taste.