Adventures in Double Exposure
Images by L.A. Davenport
A photo project via Chicago, Nice and Cambridge.
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A few years ago, I wanted to finally try an experiment that I had been thinking about for years.
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It was to shoot in double exposure, meaning to take two photographs on one piece of film negative to create two overlaid images.
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I had tried it once before, using a Holga camera, by taking a picture, not advancing the the film, and then taking another pic, before moving on to the next portion of film.
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The results were interesting but not particularly strong, as both of the overlaid images were taken at around the same time, so there was not much of a visual collision, as it were.
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Much later, I learned about the technique of shooting an entire film, winding it almost all the way back, and then shooting the film again.
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That, it was clear, would create all the visual collision I wanted, but the only question that remained was to decide which camera to use.
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In the end, I went for my Olympus AF10 Super, an old point and shoot my sister won in a raffle in the 1990s and gave to me as a present.
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I chose it because, once you have finished a film, it automatically winds it back, but not all way into the canister, allowing you to shoot over the film again, should you want to.
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Keen to see the results, I took the camera with me on a work trip to Chicago, and wandered the streets and parks whenever I could, shooting as I went.
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Then I reshot the film in Nice, France, taking shots beside the sea, with friends, at events, and I even took some shots in Cambridge, in the UK.
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And here are eleven of the resulting pictures — I hope you like them!
© L.A. Davenport 2017-2024.
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