Filmwasters
Which Board? => Main Forum => : Indofunk July 24, 2020, 10:59:22 PM
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A quick search through message topics doesn't pull up any threads dedicated to doubles, so let's start one! Doubles come in many forms: intentional, unintentional, filmswaps, etc. Here is a surprise double that Volker & I shot. He gave me a roll of some sort of Agfa film which he had, unbeknownst to me, already shot ;D
(http://www.indofunkstudios.com/images/canonet/2016_07_21_agfa_vista/20160721_016.jpg)
And here's one that I just took last week. I had bought a Contax T to replace my failing one, but it turns out to have film advance problems. So halfway through the roll, I would the film back up, threw it into my current (working, but not 100%) Contax T and shot over the film. Here's what happened.
(http://www.indofunkstudios.com/images/fw/20200721_006.jpg)
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Here's a few Polaroid doubles. For the second one I used a cheap plastic device called a The Splitter, it masks half the frame. The Vera double was just a mistake on my part.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/3947/15544568430_ddae4b495c_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/pFBYCw)Vera Double Shot (https://flic.kr/p/pFBYCw) by Bryan Chernick (https://www.flickr.com/photos/60348236@N07/), on Flickr
(https://live.staticflickr.com/8565/16736536892_98b139d820_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/ruX8jU)Cedar in the Sky (https://flic.kr/p/ruX8jU) by Bryan Chernick (https://www.flickr.com/photos/60348236@N07/), on Flickr
This one had me scratching my head at first, somehow my Contax T did it on just one frame.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/4606/25792779737_52f5d744b1_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/FidJNV)Desert double (https://flic.kr/p/FidJNV) by Bryan Chernick (https://www.flickr.com/photos/60348236@N07/), on Flickr
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Did someone say doubles??
(https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/4672/d82388ad0ff649c0b1c1adbd6895c7dc_hd.jpg?fit=max&h=1280&w=640)
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I love that first b+w shot. I've only got this one Holga double that I could find.
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Two doubles from the same beach, a year apart. The first, a pinhole in a hacked 6x9 camera with Portra 400nc. I'm guessing I shot the cliff edge first and then turned around to shoot the sea and the sky.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/6326992068_e361c10af5_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/aD6uj9)
111103_400nc_05 (https://flic.kr/p/aD6uj9) by Sandeha Lynch (https://www.flickr.com/photos/sandeha/), on Flickr
This one was Era 100 on 4x5, with a lens ... and again, I think I shot the beach stones from the water's edge, and then turned to shoot the guy standing out there.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/7238/7162783941_17bf05050d_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/bUX97R)
120604_era_06 (https://flic.kr/p/bUX97R) by Sandeha Lynch (https://www.flickr.com/photos/sandeha/), on Flickr
I cast an extra critical eye over accidental doubles as most seem to be too obvious - oh yeah, this, plus that.
I like these ones as the merge creates something new that can stand on its own.
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Wow Sandeha, that first one is sublimely beautiful :-*
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I love the guy in the surf. It has a touch of Anthony Gormley about it. Secondly, I really miss ERA 100, that was such a great film - I think there are two or three rolls left in my fridge.
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I love the guy in the surf. It has a touch of Anthony Gormley about it. Secondly, I really miss ERA 100, that was such a great film - I think there are two or three rolls left in my fridge.
Thanks - the Gormley association was why I hurried to get the shot before he moved, and hence the doublex ! ;D
I know I sometimes got confused forgetting whether a shot really was Era, or Shanghai. I found them interchangeable, and Shanghai, at least the sheet film, is still out there.
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Wow Sandeha, that first one is sublimely beautiful :-*
It was a lucky strike. The other 'single' shots that day were not bad at all, but none of them have the strength of the doublex.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/6110/6326991804_7b22d768a0_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/aD6ueA)
111103_400nc_07 (https://flic.kr/p/aD6ueA) by Sandeha Lynch (https://www.flickr.com/photos/sandeha/), on Flickr
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Doubles are all about luck ;) I mean, you can plan them, sure, but I'd still contend that it's majority luck :)
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f8x8x8 and be there.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49861552286_62661d886c_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2iY6ukY)Autoportrait (https://flic.kr/p/2iY6ukY) by William Blackstone (https://www.flickr.com/photos/willblax/), on Flickr
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Good candidate for the "Meet the Filmwasters" thread ;)
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Good candidate for the "Meet the Filmwasters" thread ;)
Great idea. It’s one of the most flattering pictures of me (or at least of my hat). I do seem to have lost a lot of weight, though.
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So, inspired by the second shot in my OP, I decided to shoot an entire roll of Gold of flowers, then rerun it with more random subjects. I shot it both times in my Canonet, and tried to line up the leader so that the frames would exactly overlap. And it all seemed to work well! I noticed that a lot more of my doubles were "keepers" ... maybe because any boringness that would have caused me to reject a shot was enhanced by having another shot on top of it ;D Anyways, two highlights from the roll:
(http://www.indofunkstudios.com/images/fw/20200805_004.jpg)
(http://www.indofunkstudios.com/images/fw/20200805_008.jpg)
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Here's one I did in 1973, just putting two slides on top of each other. Shot on a Nikkormat FTn with a Nikkor 50mm f1.4 and some kind of Fuji slide film. For the spider shot I used a reversing ring and a Soligor bellows.
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I found some more doubles, these were not planned. Shot on a Yashica 35 that failed to advance the film. I later found that this camera needs to have the film advance gears shifted backwards when you load a new film. Shot on the famous and much loved Trifca 200 film. ;D
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Another doublex, this from ten years ago.
6x4.5 Zeiss Nettar, Neopan 400
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50207599167_76ac2bc1c9_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2juF52v)
002 (https://flic.kr/p/2juF52v) by Sandeha Lynch (https://www.flickr.com/photos/sandeha/), on Flickr