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Special techniques

Double images

- Combining several pictures
In the composition on the opposite page (159) we notice that the three pictures shown were taken specifically: a window, a silhouette of a girl, and a house with a corridor. The window was shown first, but with a space left in the middle - by means of a cover - to place the silhouette in it. The lower half of this positive image was also blocked to leave room for the house and the road, which were shown by the third lantern. The illustration shows the arrangement of the equipment. I displayed the three pictures on the screen, taking into account the mutual textures and the special lighting of each one. When I found that the house was too bright for the atmosphere I wanted to create, I placed an opaque glass between the positive image and the lantern lamp to reduce the intensity of the light. I decorated the edges of the pictures during the display to hide the connections. I took several different pictures, some using colored filters to emphasize the effect of one of these three displayed pictures.
Leicaflex 1/8 sec 5.6 Ektachrom EX

- Composite image with silhouette

The main subject is the silhouette of the boy on which the children are superimposed. I placed each of these two positives in a lantern. I first exposed the silhouette on a metallized screen so that the strength and intensity of the background would eliminate all trace of the external image when I exposed the second positive, whose subject is recorded in the opaque part of the silhouette. When I had finished this arrangement, I took a picture of the group.

Hasselblad 1/15 sec 5.6 Ektachrom EX

- Double exposure
Patrick Proctor is photographed against a black velvet background that does not reflect any light. First I centered the subject on the sight glass of the machine and then indicated the position with a thick pen. After taking the first picture, I centered the subject again in the lower part of the frame and then took a second picture similar to the first on the same film. Since this is a simple and easy example of a double exposure, you can make a larger number of exposures, namely successive pictures.
Hasselblad with electronic flash, aperture 22, Actachrom EX

- Negative and positive
To achieve this composition, I used the negative of a small pool of water on a wooden surface and placed this image on a metallized screen. The area outside the face of the other positive image was painted black to form a black background. The two images were exposed by two lanterns on the same metallized screen and a photograph of the whole was taken. Rolleiflex 1/2 sec, aperture 8, Actachrom EX