One Final Star Projector Post

I’m nothing if not a man of my word. After my last star projector double exposure, I said I’d try it again in my Elan.

I shot the first exposure one stop under again. This wound up being f/2.0 at between 1/8-1/20 second. I shot more of the frames intentionally out of focus this time, but otherwise there’s not much new to say about my technique.

The main difference is I used the same camera for each exposure, which meant no weird mid-frame cut-offs this time.

I re-shot the roll the next day. It was the kind of bright sunny day where it’s almost a waste to shoot 400-speed film, but I tried to include some high-contrast subjects to get strong shadows.

With any double exposure, the shadows of one exposure are where the other exposure shows through- so if one exposure is too bright, there’s not much chance for the other exposure to shine through. It took a few goes around to knock that into my thick skull, but I’m finally starting to get somewhere.

A bonus benefit to this technique is some of my actual light leaks end up blending in pretty well.

There’s not much else to say here, so here’s some bonus photos of the geese I finished off the roll on. I’m a big fan of ‘nuisance animals,’ so I can never resist a goose pic.

I got a little closer to them than I perhaps should have. Luckily all they did was eyeball me, but I was definitely regretting only having my 50mm lens on me at the time when I had a perfectly good 28-105mm sitting at home.

Unless I come up with another idea (which I wouldn’t put past myself), this may be it for my star projector experiments. I’ll probably repeat it just for fun, but I think I’ve pretty much covered by bases in terms of what I can do successfully with the tools I have available.