More Of Other Peoples Double Exposures.

Wanted to have a bit more of a dig around to see what else I could find to help me in regards to my idea of using double exposure photography for my next assignment.

Dan Mountford.

"Double Exposure is a series of surreal photos by Dan Mountford created by exposing single frames of film twice. While they look like photo-manipulation done with fancy image editing programs, Mountford relies on fancy camerawork for the images, leaving only the colour additions/modifications to post processing".

Images and text taken from petapixel.com

Florian Imgrund

Another who produces single frame double exposure all in camera without the use of Photoshop, likes to merge human forms with nature.

Images taken from www.thisiscolossal.com

The majority of work available seems to be very much along the same lines combining the human form with more natural environment, always seems to be made up on the whole of black and white images. Whether its easier to exposure/work with don't really know but can't seem to find a great variety in colour. Seems to me to be a lack of real experimentation in what could be produced with this process, people seem to be following the same themes all the time in stead of moving it into different areas of artist use. Maybe there's a real opportunity here to approach a subject in much more of a unique way then I imagined. 

www.flickr.com

Ended up having to head to flickr to find a collection with a more creative approach to the process.

Taken by Frank Lloyd Wright

Taken by Adam Rybczynski

This one stood out because of the way he'd used double exposure and a changing perspective to focus on the subject of the lighthouse, good clever use of the process to take a look at a familiar landmark.

 

Taken by Tanakawho

Taken byJim Knapp

This doesn't even scratch the surface of the many hundreds of images that turn up when you search double exposure on Flickr but what I've tried to show is the variety that can be found with people experimenting with all kinds of subjects matters. What did surprise me was the relatively large number of people that are still playing around with film cameras, you take it as something that we've moved on from using but it's clear that it still can be a very creative medium when used in the right context. Flickr has help me a great deal in seeing that there are many more options then I originally thought in how I can use double exposures to create a body of work containing a strong message that can still be relevant artistically as well.