Canon AE-1 Program Double Exposure with Kodak Portra 400 35mm Film

Some of my most favorite and memorable photographs that I’ve been making lately have been of double exposures. I think what I enjoy the most about creating double exposures on film is that you don’t always know what you’re going to get until the film has been developed.

Double exposure on film made with Canon AE-1 Program on Kodak Portra 400 35mm film

Double Exposure with Mamiya C220 Medium Format on Cinestill 800 120 film

There seems to be an endless amount of possibilities to take an ordinary image and expose it twice to come up with something that makes it unusual and more interesting to the eye.

Double exposure with Canon AE-1 Program on Kodak Portra 400 film

Double exposure on film with Canon AE-1 Program on Kodak Portra 400 film

Mimi Zulu double exposure on Mamiya C220 Medium Format camera on Kodak Portra 400 film

If you’re interested in making double exposures of your own here’s a good youtube tutorial on how to set your camera to make them.

Of course setting your camera up to take double exposures is only part of the
process. The other part however is the thought process and technical
settings that go along with it which photographer Wendy Laurel explains well in her tutorial here: Double Exposure on Film Tutorial.