Wheaton to Chicago, Double Exposure (2015)
I've been intending to play with double exposures for a long time, but just haven't gotten around to it - until recently. During my last trip to Chicago I had the opportunity to try something I've wanted to do for a while now: I shot a roll of Ektar in the F6, then rewound it and loaded it into the F and shot it again. This caused a few problems due to the different ways each camera loads film - forward roll and reverse roll, and the film ended up jamming in the F when I went to rewind it. Scanning proved a bit of a challenge because the LS-5000 wants to take the images frame by frame. But the EPSON scanner has no such limitation, allowing long strips of film to be lain into the holder and scanned as one, giant image - maintaining continuity in a longer scene. About half the roll was what I imagined - these washes of time blending different events into dreamy vignettes producing just enough detail to provide clues as to what you're seeing. I'll be doing more of this. It's the antithesis of "the perfect photograph" and really does combine a blend of intentional creativity with experimentation in the end producing somewhat of a surprise.
[Nikon F6 + Nikon F, Kodak Ektar]