March experiments
Double exposure with a Cokin star filter
I’ve been experimenting more with my vintage Cokin filters to see what kind of film they work best with. I’ve especially enjoyed shooting with the star filter I found in a thrift shop - which you can see in a lot of these photos.
For this roll of Kentmere Pan 200, I took notes on how I shot each image - how I exposed, if I used a filter and so on. I tried reading my notes when I got the roll back, but they were completely incomprehensible even to me so I definitely need to be more clear.
I still think my last few rolls have been a little bit too overexposed for my liking, probably because I have trouble reading the lightmeter on my Nikon FE. Compared to Nikon FM (which I shot with before) which has a diode meter, the Nikon FE has a needle meter. To my brain, it makes absolutely no sense and I have to think extra hard before each shot. It’s also almost impossible to read in dark conditions AND as a left eye shooter, the light meter is on the left side which makes it harder to see because I have to look up. You’d think I’d get used to it but even after four months, I still struggle with this!
Double exposure - I cut out tiny paper stars and placed them on black paper to get this effect. The mirror is on the wall. Here I didn’t use any filter.
Double exposure with a diffusion filter - not ideal for this film stock (Kentmere Pan 200). I’ll probably stick to using it with ilford xp2 which is sharper and less contrasty.
Double exposure with a mirror
Double exposure with a star filter
I think I used a diffusion filter here, I prefer the ones above!
Double exposure on a foggy day
Here I used a Cokin Fog filter, you can see a subtle fog on the left side of the image
Shot with a splitzer filter - I obviously failed to line up the windmill here.
Here I used a diffusion filter - not sure how I feel about it, I think it might be TOO soft for this roll