Exploring the Orton Effect: Crafting Dreamlike Imagery in Photography
The Orton Effect is a post-processing technique that blends multiple exposures of the same scene to produce a dreamy, ethereal quality in photographs. Originating in the mid-1980s by photographer Michael Orton, this method involves overlaying a sharply focused image with one or more out-of-focus, overexposed versions. The result is a photograph that combines crisp details…
