Double Exposure in the Darkroom

This is another darkroom technique that we had the chance to try out during our lecture. Double exposure in the darkroom consists of using 2 film negatives to create 1 image. Once again we used the enlarger, photo sensitive paper and the 3 different chemicals to develop the image which are the developer, the stop and the fix. With the 2 negatives, find the best composition for them to fit together and place them in the enlarger in the desired position. It is important to do some test trips before doing the final images, to annotate the best settings to put the enlarger in to get a great shot. The test strip that we did consists of covering a part of the paper for a short amount of time and exposing. We move the cover slightly more and expose again and we did this 2 more times to figure out how much time the paper needs for the images to develop properly. The test strip can be seen on the left and the the film on the right were used to create the test strip. Once you figure out the time it needs to develop clearly you go ahead and do the double exposer with the chosen settings. Unfortunately, I did not get the chance to do one final image as we did not have enough time.

Double exposure in general, would usually work better if one of the images is a silhouette. It is also suggested that both the negatives be of the same thickness.

Information citation:

Experimentaltechniquesinphotography.blogspot.com. 2013. Double Exposure and Sandwiching Technique (Analogue). [online] Available at: <http://experimentaltechniquesinphotography.blogspot.com/2013/12/double-exposure-and-sandwiching.html> [Accessed 12 February 2021].

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