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Call Orkin! Quick!

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This carefully orchestrated double exposure was taken in the pre-photoshop days. My cousin, Brian, and I exposed a roll of 35mm film of a mantis against a black background using a macro zoom lens. I then rewound and reloaded the film, and exposed Brian in the left of the frame using a 50mm lens (and various garden tools). If you examine the right of the frame, you'll see a vertical stripe where the film was not quite aligned between the two exposures.

 

I had a lot of fun with this shot. I told people that this "thing" broke our porch light, and that the cat wouldn't go out at night. They accused me of fancy darkroom techniques until I showed them the negatives. Instant believers.

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Uploaded on August 9, 2008
Taken on August 9, 2008