Topic: Let's see some doubles!

[Indofunk]

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



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.

[Bryan]

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.   

Vera Double Shot by Bryan Chernick, on Flickr

Cedar in the Sky by Bryan Chernick, on Flickr

This one had me scratching my head at first, somehow my Contax T did it on just one frame. 

Desert double by Bryan Chernick, on Flickr

[hookstrapped]

Did someone say doubles??

[Nigel]

I love that first b+w shot. I've only got this one Holga double that I could find.

[Sandeha Lynch]

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.


111103_400nc_05 by Sandeha Lynch, 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.


120604_era_06 by Sandeha Lynch, 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.

[Indofunk]

Wow Sandeha, that first one is sublimely beautiful 

[Nigel]

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.

[Sandeha Lynch]

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 ! 

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.

[Sandeha Lynch]

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.

111103_400nc_07 by Sandeha Lynch, on Flickr

[Indofunk]

Doubles are all about luck I mean, you can plan them, sure, but I'd still contend that it's majority luck

[Blaxton]

f8x8x8 and be there.

Autoportrait by William Blackstone, on Flickr

[Indofunk]

Good candidate for the "Meet the Filmwasters" thread

[Blaxton]

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.

[Indofunk]

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 Anyways, two highlights from the roll:

[Kai-san]

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.

[Kai-san]

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. 

[Sandeha Lynch]

Another doublex, this from ten years ago.

6x4.5 Zeiss Nettar, Neopan 400

002 by Sandeha Lynch, on Flickr