Monumental Flip
Another fliptych, as I have come to call them, this one of a monument on Clover Point. This is also one of the instances where the frames slipped when advancing the film. Surreptitiously, just the right amount to eliminate the black band between frames. The challenge with this one was framing the two shots so that the monument was above itself in the two images. I like that there is a person in the lower shot, and not the upper.
Below is a detail shot of the monument, also flipped in camera.
This is another in my series of half-frame photos, and a multitych. It is also in a series of DSLR shots taken at Clover Point, the monument has previously been seen here and the background here.
I’ll be off-grid for a couple of days, and then in the field for 3 or 4 more but perhaps on-line. If I am slow getting back to any comments you might grace my blog with, it is only because I am not around and I promise I will respond to all of them. So, please comment in my absence, I like comments.
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Olympus Pen, Half Frame, 28mm lens, Ilford Pan-F Plus 50, ISO50.
burnt embers 
It’s not everyday that a camera malfunction brings such a delightful result. My old Yashica D sometimes would not wind the film correctily and I usually ended up with terrible images as a result. I still have that camera but haven’t used it in decades because of that problem. Otherwise, it gave outstanding images.
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I agree Ken – if it was going to malfunction it could not have chosen a better spot or way of doing it. Though I would have been happy with this photo with the black bar in place, now that I have seen this one I prefer this outcome.
The Yashica D is a nice camera. Probably not all that expensive to get it fixed if you were still shooting film and if film is still readily available.
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As fate would have it I saw a similar idea this morning called a diptych which was made using the Lomography Horizon Perfekt camera. http://www.lomography.com/magazine/news/2014/02/02/most-popular-photo-last-year-february-2-2013.
I like the way that your top image has the sky a lot brighter in the lower part of the image due to the doubling of the exposure while leaving the rest of the scenes the same. Nice look and idea.
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Hi Ben. Thanks so much for this link – those are wonderful shots, and conceptually very similar to some of what I am up to, so very nice to see them. I have not seen this method before, and it is really very compelling, especially with a landscape camera. But man, reversing the film to use the back-side in the middle of a shoot takes this kind of thing to a new level! I love the redscale look (you will have seen I use a redscale treatment in Topaz quite a bit), but I definitely am not ready to carry a black bag in the field, create masks in the camera and flip the film mid shoot, in winter. That is dedication. The results, at least in this guy’s hands, justify the extra effort. Thanks again, I am just leaving for a trip, but when I get back I will be poking around that webspace looking for more of what those guys are up to.
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