Double Exposure - Diana Mini Photoshop Edit

My results from using the Diana Mini have gotten me inspired to do more double exposure experiments, so I thought I'd work on some of the photos I took with the Diana Mini that either weren't double exposure or just didn't work, and use them to create a mixture of analog and digital double exposure.

I took the photos into Photoshop, where I altered the levels and used overlay effects to produce the double exposure effect. Here are the results I ended up with.

Double exposure - Using The Diana Mini

As an experiment to convey decay, I went out and used a Diana Mini camera to take some double exposure photos and some normal photos too. I used black and white film for this, as there would be a much wider range of contrast between light and dark, and it gave my photos a vintage feel, making them look older. I will take some of the experiments that either didn't work or are just normal photos into Photoshop and experiment around with them to try and make them look double exposed.

Here are what I managed to take.

Pin Hole Camera - Biscuit Tin

As an experiment using a flawed media of photography inspired by Steven Pippin's use of a washing machine, I did an experiment that involved using a home made camera made from a biscuit tin. The biscuit tin camera was made by getting an empty biscuit, painting the entire inside of the tin and lid with black paint and pushing a pin directly through the center of the lid so that there was an entrance point for the light to come through. The shutter was just a piece of duct-tape over the pin hole in the lid. In order to take the photo, I stuck some light sensitive paper into the tin and went outside, I opened the shutter and exposed the light sensitive paper for 10 seconds, I then developed the image in the dark room.

This first image is the negative paper that is inverted. To un-invert it I took another piece of light sensitive paper and sandwiched the tow together, I then blasted light through the negative onto the new paper for a fraction of a second. Then I developed the new image i the same way as the first one and ended up with these results.

These lower two have been purposely ruined using a chemical that stops the paper from being sensitive to light, this way they have a purposely ruined feel to them, rather allot like what Stephen Gill did in his photography.

Looking At Artist - Alina Szapocznikow

Alina Szapocznikow is a Polish artist and photographer that used a unique method of using something most people find rather disgusting into an interesting photography piece. Alina used chewing gum as her main focal point for this series of work by arranging the chewed gum into all sorts of positions to mimic the positions of people. 

By using something that most people would call a waste product as the main photo point, it shows how things classed as 'rubbish' can be used for an artistic purpose. I myself would love to try out this form of photography using chewing gum. I will think over what else I could do with hewing gum in order to take stunning photographs.