Double Exposure Tutorial

A double exposure is essentially where you take two or more photographs on one frame of your negative or slide film.

If you have a 35mm SLR this is pretty easy, if you have a digital or a point and shoot you may not be able to do this.

On your 35mm camera look for a symbol that looks like two pictures overlapping, turn the dial to this 'double exposure setting'. This will keep the camera from advancing the film until you turn it to another setting. Take as many images and you want on this same negative, but keep in mind that the light will add up. So you may want to underexpose the images in order to get proper exposure.

Or if you have a old 35mm camera you can take the whole roll of film, noting in a journal what you took on each shot and where it was in the frame. Then you would manually rewind the film, leaving a small tail out of the roll, reinsert the film and take a second image on top of each picture. If you want to skip a picture, put the cap back on to take another image.

Things I look for when taking a double exposure:

Similar colors, shapes, or ideas. Or sometimes I look for opposite ideas, shapes and colors. I also look for shapes that are the same but that are radically different sizes.