A couple of weeks ago I went to a local thrift store and found a filter I had been looking for (a blue Cokin filter - not ideal for b&w though). The gentleman at the check-out counter looked at the filter and asked me “Are you interested in more of those? I have a lot at home! Come back next Saturday, I’ll bring them for you.”. And so I did, and he had brought a whole bag for me and written a little message. It was the sweetest thing! One of the filters in the bag was one I had really been searching for - a Cokin multi image filter. I was so excited to try it before finishing the roll.

This is going to be a long post because I liked almost every single photo out of the 39 frames I got. Most of these are shot in my studio.

I usually write down all my ideas and projects I want to shoot on film - one list for B&W and one for color. Shooting a whole roll of double exposures has been on that list for some time. When I put this Ilford XP2 super 400 in my camera, I decided this was going to be the one. When I get the photos back from the lab, the double exposures are always the ones I’m most excited about, since I can’t really imagine how they will turn out. I like shooting double exposures with things in nature - leaves, flowers, trees, clouds. But right now that is a bit of a challenge.. so I started, and halfway through it was too challenging and I didn’t want to limit myself. I’m glad I still got a lot of them on this roll, and I tried a bunch of new things too.

*Long exposure - “light painting” with my phone flashlight*

*This is actually a double exposure, but it looks like it’s a mirror self portrait*

So tell me, if you’ve made it all this way, which photo is your favorite?

Experiments on B&W Film

Shooting expired color film

My first roll of Kentmere Pan 200