Analogue Double Exposures

Using my Canon A1 camera, I went around Wem and took photographs of subjects I thought would be interesting. By holding down the film release button on the base of the camera, as I wound the film it stopped the film from advancing, and allowed me to do a double exposure.

While a few of these images were quite successful, I feel as if I could have achieved some better photographs if I had put in more consideration to how the two images would interact. A way of improving this would be to have more silhouettes and human figures against natural backgrounds, with lighter skies and backgrounds in order to have a smaller area of interaction between the two shots.



These are my successful shots. The effect of the double exposure is interesting, while still working as an image that is recognisable.

Below is an example of a double exposure that didn't work as well as the shots above. This is because the figure has a crowded background behind her, which turned up dark in the photo, so made the majority of the picture masked by the tree, instead of just her. 

This effect happened in quite a few of my shots, which made me come to the realisation that when working with film I need to be much more careful in considering my composition and the light and effects the film with have in the setting.