If you are a new subscriber to perfectlight, you might not know that I love a collaboration; “The Sunday interview” series is not included in this category.
How cool, comparing the 2 posts between you. The roll Susanne posted of your collaboration seemed to have more nature while this one has a beautiful city vibe.
Looking forward to seeing your color rolls. Love this project, great work both of you.
What is so beautiful about this process is that each person is putting in their own vision, their best effort, but other than that, you have to let go of control.
The results are surprising, interesting, and beautifully imperfect.
I think these images are terrific and would love to see them in print. I've made many in-camera double exposures while photographing recitals and concerts for a university music department for several years on a voluntary basis. I was taking single exposures for documentation for them and still do that. But one time I tried making some deliberate doubles when musicians in a senior recital (an important event) were sitting too far apart for me to fit into a single frame. And discovered how much fun it was to try to use the "medium" to convey the musicians' interactions and expressions and body language for more than a single moment. And also to try to convey something about how the music made me feel, calm or jazzy or whatever. Which works sometimes and sometimes not. I especially like your experiment to "play" together without knowing what the other "player" produced and am impressed at how well it worked. It shows me that I need not be so deliberate nor (perhaps) work so hard to make something interesting; maybe even snap the shutter without thinking about what's already in the can. I would be happy to share some of those images if you're interested and would certainly welcome feedback including suggestions on how to make them better. Or different. When I upgraded my camera system (Fuji-X) I found it could superimpose more than two exposures but most of the time I have tried to do that I think the images are far too much of a mish-mash.
Wow, photographing musicians in form of a multi exposure sounds interesting, but also difficult to me. But what a great idea. Thank you for sharing. Making double exposures is easy and difficult at the same time. I think you easily get a mishmash if the single images are too crowded or if there is too little contrast in them. I find they work best (but that is only my taste) if one of the images is a bit “cleaner”. But there really are no rules and everyone’s taste is different. Superimposing more than two images is even trickier and the risk of overcrowding the image is even higher. But if you use it the right way the crowdedness can be beautiful. Feel free to share your photos with me/us. And thank you for your comment!
never thought of printing them, great idea, thank you!
i would love to see your multi-exposure one.
for me, as susanne said, for film double exposure, one of the frame has to be simple/clear to work. digital multi-exposure is different, i did few of them while photographing polo or rugby and i got mixed results.
The ins and outs. The confusion in trying to figure out. My mind wants to comprehend. Layer upon layer. Whose is what? Where is up? Whose words are those? Stop at the black line. No, keep going past. Like brain freeze from too much ice cream. I'm huffing and puffing to warm up my brain.
Knowing the collaboration and the decisions my minds want to make in figuring out who's photo belongs to whom. Then calming down to just "soak it all in."
thank you!
you can see Susanne's post here: https://substack.com/@susannehelmert/p-147610686
This was fun! Thank you for playing!
thank you for having me!
my pleasure!
Love this idea! The process has produced some really interesting and captivating images.
i am very happy with the results
Wacky weird and wonderful. (And fun!)
you nailed it! 😉
What a wonderful collaboration. I like the first picture.
thank you!
What a great idea! Some of these have turned out really well.
thank you! i'm very happy with the results
How cool, comparing the 2 posts between you. The roll Susanne posted of your collaboration seemed to have more nature while this one has a beautiful city vibe.
Looking forward to seeing your color rolls. Love this project, great work both of you.
thank you very much! as i said in my post i'm open to all types of collaboration, if you feel like ... my door is open
That’s very generous of you, thank you!
I love this! I love this! I love this!
Such amazing images.
What is so beautiful about this process is that each person is putting in their own vision, their best effort, but other than that, you have to let go of control.
The results are surprising, interesting, and beautifully imperfect.
i couldn't describe it better myself 😊thank you very much for your kind words!
Some great results here. Well done!
thank you!
Wow, this is such an interesting collaboration. I love the concept and the photographs presented here from you and Susanne!
thank you!
I have not shot film since 2004 but still have my 40 something year old point and click nikon camera.
time to dust it off, maybe? 😊
Great collaboration, love these results!
thank you!
Wonderful collaboration! 👌👍
thank you!
I love these - what a great way to collaborate!
it is a wonderful idea
I think these images are terrific and would love to see them in print. I've made many in-camera double exposures while photographing recitals and concerts for a university music department for several years on a voluntary basis. I was taking single exposures for documentation for them and still do that. But one time I tried making some deliberate doubles when musicians in a senior recital (an important event) were sitting too far apart for me to fit into a single frame. And discovered how much fun it was to try to use the "medium" to convey the musicians' interactions and expressions and body language for more than a single moment. And also to try to convey something about how the music made me feel, calm or jazzy or whatever. Which works sometimes and sometimes not. I especially like your experiment to "play" together without knowing what the other "player" produced and am impressed at how well it worked. It shows me that I need not be so deliberate nor (perhaps) work so hard to make something interesting; maybe even snap the shutter without thinking about what's already in the can. I would be happy to share some of those images if you're interested and would certainly welcome feedback including suggestions on how to make them better. Or different. When I upgraded my camera system (Fuji-X) I found it could superimpose more than two exposures but most of the time I have tried to do that I think the images are far too much of a mish-mash.
Wow, photographing musicians in form of a multi exposure sounds interesting, but also difficult to me. But what a great idea. Thank you for sharing. Making double exposures is easy and difficult at the same time. I think you easily get a mishmash if the single images are too crowded or if there is too little contrast in them. I find they work best (but that is only my taste) if one of the images is a bit “cleaner”. But there really are no rules and everyone’s taste is different. Superimposing more than two images is even trickier and the risk of overcrowding the image is even higher. But if you use it the right way the crowdedness can be beautiful. Feel free to share your photos with me/us. And thank you for your comment!
never thought of printing them, great idea, thank you!
i would love to see your multi-exposure one.
for me, as susanne said, for film double exposure, one of the frame has to be simple/clear to work. digital multi-exposure is different, i did few of them while photographing polo or rugby and i got mixed results.
The ins and outs. The confusion in trying to figure out. My mind wants to comprehend. Layer upon layer. Whose is what? Where is up? Whose words are those? Stop at the black line. No, keep going past. Like brain freeze from too much ice cream. I'm huffing and puffing to warm up my brain.
Knowing the collaboration and the decisions my minds want to make in figuring out who's photo belongs to whom. Then calming down to just "soak it all in."
Cheers to you both!
Wow, what a great feedback. Thank you so much, Kenneth! I know it is a lot to take in, but I am honoured you took the time to look at these.