Double Exposures
I shot an entire roll of film through my Olympus OM1…twice. It was on purpose of course and I took quite a bit of care in lining the film up for the second go around. I achieved this by making a small scratch on the film so that I could align it the same both times. This actually was harder than it sounds as each time you start loading the film it’s like some sort of random position generator. The first exposures were all of various line art from old technical books and some of my own block prints. What I discovered was that such small areas of high contrast like this were not ideal for double exposures. Many of the line art images are lost in the other second images. However that is how you learn and improve. I added a further layer of complexity to my endeavor by making a list of all the images and then trying to make some sort of match between the two. Here are some of the better examples from this test, in the future I think I would make sure that I used larger areas of dark and light so it makes more of a cut out effect of the second image. The other thing is that despite the visual contrast of black on the white of paper this isn’t nearly enough contrast. Not like what you get from a light source and a silhouette.
