Ghost world

[mistress_elaine]

A rare example of a centred image in my journal...

Comments

[glissarine]

I love your double exposures :)

[mistress_elaine]

Thanks! I love them when they turn out like this one. Unfortunately, most of them don't. :-(

[taotianone]

we should always be open to the "accidental" in art. of course, a double exposure is a sort of deliberate accident, but still an accident in that you can't totally control the outcome. in this case, the outcome was very good. it's a great piece of photographic mystery.

[mistress_elaine]

Thank you! You're so right about not being able to control the outcome. I tend to plan my double exposures fairly carefully, but even so I'm always surprised at how they turn out. In this case I was worried about the combination of a dully lit background and a brightly lit subject, but it worked out very well -- I'll definitely try that again! Furthermore, I'm delighted with the way the sculpture fits into the background -- the way its head ended up precisely between two branches. That's the kind of detail you can't plan. I got very lucky there.

If only the rest of the film were as intriguing...

[6ft5]

had no idea you were such a light traveler ;-)

[mistress_elaine]

I bet you had no idea I was a hat-wearing bloke, either. :-)

[insomniacdoze]

at first i thought it was freddy from nightmare on elmstreet :D
very cool again i must say

[mistress_elaine]

Freddy Krueger! Of course. Thank you for solving that mystery. The sculpture did remind me of someone when I took the picture, but I couldn't think of whom. Now I know. Freddy from Nightmare on Elm Street, indeed...

Dank je wel! :-)

[insomniacdoze]

hehe, no problemo :)

[april_dream]

+1 for freddy

[tangledstrings]

Wow very creepy and well done. That is really some excellent placement there.

[mistress_elaine]

Thanks! Yes, the placement worked out really well here. I'd welcome a few more of these. It'll be interesting to see what comes of my latest double-exposure experiment...