Double Exposure

This picture is called a double exposure because in order to make it you expose two different pieces of film on the same piece of photo paper. To do this you have to set the timing precisely so that you don't make either of the photo's to dark. In other words it is like manually photo shopping two pictures together. In order to do this I started with the picture of the girl's face. I made sure that I set the magenta to a perfect level so that I could get the black's and white's I wanted. Once I got this picture right, I set up another enlarger with the other picture. This picture i wanted to have a little darker so that it would show up on her face. To do this I made the exposure time a little bit longer. I also had to make sure that the tree would fit on her face the way I wanted it to. To do this i had to make sure that the tree was smaller. Then once both enlarger's were ready I started with the larger picture. I used a piece of cardboard to blur out the part where the tree would be. This is so that there wouldn't be an overlap in the photo's. I then did the same thing with the other enlarger. I used a piece of cardboard to cover the rest of the photo so that it wouldn't get over exposed. Overall it took me multiple trial's. Each photo came out differently because of the way the cardboard was being held or the positioning of the tree.