For a number of reasons, the shutter stutters.
The film gets a double exposure.
The film doesn't get advanced for the next picture.
The shutter simply is faulty.
The photographer simply trips the shutter twice, "to make sure".
And you have it: the DOUBLE EXPOSURE.
This one is the scariest.
Childhood dreams
This must be the strangest Double Exposure in the collection. How many pictures are there?
This must be the oldest double exposure in the collection.
Dreaming of flying.
GHOST CAT
One man parade.
This is a part of a series looking at a few examples from Lost Gallery of the seven most common problems of the amateur photographer.
1.) The photographer's own shadow is in the picture.
2.) Forgot to advance the film: The Double Exposure
3.) Blocked the lens with a finger or a thumb or something
4.) Somebody moved, either the subject or the photographer
5.) Not framed right, Missing heads, feet, people
6.) Improper lighting (Overexposed, Underexposed)
7.) Fogged negative from miss-loaded film or a damaged camera.
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It is always a mystery
how a photograph of any
of these precious children
could end up lost
or abandoned.
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Dee and the Business School 
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WHAT'S GOING ON HERE?
"What are they doing?"
Wow! This may be the creepiest genre in your collection. All the photos have that dream or nightmare quality that makes them accidental works of art. The blimp over the paddleboat is my favorite, but the double line of ladies is fantastic too.
ReplyDeleteThanks Mike Brubaker. You are right; some of these old photographs are downright creepy. The superimposed double images always produce an unsettling feeling for me. The chain of women is my favorite too. The blimp photograph is the most popular though. It has collected almost 18 thousand views on Flickr.
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