In my first year of shooting with a 4×5 camera, there were two occasions where I ended up double exposing a sheet of film because I wasn’t paying enough attention to the dark slides as I placed them back into the film holders them post-exposure. Oddly enough, both mistakes turned out really well, and encouraged me to practice this deliberately from time to time.
This shot was taken overlooking the West Fork of Oak Creek Canyon in Arizona. I took one exposure with the closest thing I had to a ‘standard’ lens, then switched to a more telephoto lens, thinking I was exposing a different sheet of film. The enhanced layering effect made this one my favorite mistake.
In response to the Daily Post Challenge: Oops!
December 15, 2015 at 2:14 am
Have you ever printed this one? I bet it would look great enlarged.
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December 15, 2015 at 9:24 pm
This one has remained in a file cabinet most of its life, and has never made it to print. I’m sure it would make a great print, as it is on a sheet of 4×5 film, and almost never been handled.
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December 16, 2015 at 1:21 am
Oh my! You really have to print and frame it.
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December 15, 2015 at 7:55 am
That is a great mistake!
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December 15, 2015 at 9:29 pm
Thank you, Mary! After developing the film, I was thinking, “That turned out great, but I don’t remember it looking like that.” Then I looked at the other shots and realized why.
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December 15, 2015 at 4:08 pm
It’s all in perfect order…..Love IT!
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December 15, 2015 at 9:32 pm
Sometimes the mistakes we make in life work out well, and end up being the choice we were supposed to make all along!
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December 15, 2015 at 9:49 pm
A lovely oops! 🙂
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December 15, 2015 at 10:27 pm
Thank you, Eliza!
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