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| Val/Royal Pavillion, by Dan Mountford, (2010) Digital double exposure Retrieved from: http://petapixel.com/2011/03/14/surreal-double-exposure-photographs-created-entirely-in-camera/ |
Photographer Dan Mountford double exposes his shots right in the camera and creates these amazing images! See the image above and many other amazing double exposures on his flickr page.
For my final project I am working in the dark room and am wanting to play with double exposure, negative sandwiches, and perhaps some photogram elements. I feel like they will work well in developing the narrative I have in mind. I think in general, double exposures have a ethereal feeling to them, very dream-like, or as if the viewer is actually capturing a glimpse of the subjects inner thoughts or feelings. I have my concept worked out and even a good sense of what I want my final product to look like but I need to wrap my head around how these techniques work in the dark room in order to shoot my film correctly.
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| Drifter, by Melissa Bolen ( 2012 ) Digital double exposure. http://www.flickr.com/photos/marissabolen/7766930310/ |
I'm not going to lie, it is very tempting to just go with digital, I could make a digital collage with the look of a double exposure in about 3 minutes, but I am determined to stick it out in the darkroom and to step out of my comfort zone. Photoshop will still be there when I'm done learning something new!
Enough about me though, what about the place of double exposure techniques (digital or analog) in the classroom?
In an article about the history of double exposures over at Dubble (http://press.dubble.me/history-of-double-exposures/) a very interesting point was brought up about the creative potential for using double exposure techniques in collaborative art making. On their end, Dubble actually offers a Smartphone application that will blend any photo you upload with a photo from another user to create a post-production double exposure. Sounds like fun to me! Novelty aside, I think there could be some excellent pedagogical applications for the collaborative strategy of creative double exposures - what a good opportunity for encouraging students to value differences, see through each others eyes, cooperate, problem solve, explore narratives, and of course, create art! I would even encourage teachers to create unlikely pairings within their classes to see what students are able to come up with. They might just learn a lot about each other.
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| 2 Couches.(n.d.) Retrieved from: http://content.photojojo.com/diy/friendly-double-exposures/ |
Photojojo, offers great tips on how to collaboratively shoot double exposures on film, but the same tips could be used to create digital double exposures. One of the suggestions is to have a theme such as food, home, favourite things etc... that both photographers would explore. It got me thinking - How about double exposure photo pals from another country?? How amazing would that be! Imagine the compare and contrast action that would result!
Helpful Websites:
http://content.photojojo.com/diy/friendly-double-exposures/
http://press.dubble.me/history-of-double-exposures/
http://fstoppers.com/double-exposure-what-happens-when-exposing-the-same-film-or-cf-twice
Amazing Art work:
http://petapixel.com/2011/03/14/surreal-double-exposure-photographs-created-entirely-in-camera/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/marissabolen/7766930310/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/danmountford/5239110479/in/set-72157625371295037
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