I spent a lot of time this week playing tricks with my camera, actually a lot of time trying to shoot double exposures. In fact, I have a lot of pictures that are completely black or completely white, and more where I can barely make out the target.

However, lets just look at some basic pictures, I am continuing to work on light levels.

 

But Like I lost most of my film trying to double expose. With my camera the way I double expose I by opening the loading bay at the bottom of the camera to keep the picture from advancing through the rollers. I had some great early shots.

I have to admit that these shots were fun, I thought I had the hang of the process so I took these shots next. My face is a lot more clear in the second picture but I think it worked. Neat thing about this film, often when it doesn’t work it still looks cool. There is often something special about the picture, even when they don’t come out right. After these pictures came out so well I tried the ones below the next day.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So obviously I don’t have the hang of it. These wash outs are amazingly bad. I have a few ideas about the problem, but at the end of the day I don’t really know. I know that I have an entire cartridge of completely washed out pictures from attempted double exposures, and completely blacked out photos from my attempts at mirror selfies (none of the mirror selfies worked).

But there is no reason to end this post with wash outs and overly dark photos so here are some fun pictures . I played with the light/dark settings on the camera. I can’t say I like one of these pictures over the other, actually I am not sure if I really “like” either of them. On the left side the Minecraft figure is in focus but the candles wash, on the right the candles look great but the Minecraft figure is out of focus. But hey, what can you do?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I think I will get some color film next time. It may help with the double exposures, but if anyone has any feedback let me know.