Visual Description: A Hasselblad 500C/M with the film-holder deattached. In front are four square cardboard pieces with different shapes cutout in them, and behind them is a stack of more cardboard cutouts. Dashed lines show how the cardboard cutout fits on the back of the camera body and another set of dashed lines shows how the film-holder fits over the cutouts. This leaves the cardboard cutout right in front of the film during the exposure, masking out the film and allowing only the cutout shape to be exposed.
Process:
CONSTELLATIONS
120mm MULTIPLE EXPOSURE
Here I will present the process of creating the multiple exposed 120mm photo works, using a cardboard cutout I made, that fit into my Hasselblad 500C/M, between the back of the camera body, and in front of the film-holder. Sitting right in front of the film masking it, to only let the cutout area be exposed to the film. As the cardboard cutout sits at the back of the camera body, it can not be seen when looking through the viewfinder, since the mirror is in front of the cardboard location.
I am using the example of one of my constellation photos, but the process is similar only the subject is Street Constellationsdifferent for Street Constellations, Sky Constellations, and Untitle Experiments Layering Space Through Cutouts.
Visual Description: A plan of New York City and an excerpt of the area between Brooklyn and Queens, where Grand St and Metropolitan Ave crosses at the end of Newtown Creek.
Visual Description: Diagram showing the location and masking of the film of each of the three photos that make up the final composition.
Visual Description: Photo of the developed 120mm film negative, showing that the three exposures are mixed directly on the film, not done in photoshop or other editing programs.
Visual Description: The final developed multiple exposed photo work, showing the three overlapping exposures. Each exposure is of the industrial area around the end of Newtown Creek, New York City.