In that time we've built a strong friendship, even though we've never met in the real world. Victoria in Canada and Aude in France are a bit too far from each other, especially when you are both starving artists. Ah well regular exchanges of art, buttons, strange packaging, recipes, camera film and other bits and bobs have flown back and forth across the Atlantic and North America regularly.
So a few months ago we hatched a plan to do a double exposure project. We chose the theme of water, I went first then rewound the film and sent it off to Monica, who re-shot.
Thing no 1. We are so bloody pleased with them we have set up a new blog to show them, along with our future collaborations we have planned. Welcome to fortyfivenorth-sixtyonewest. You can see the whole project over there
Thing no 2. Go and check out Monica's own blog too
Thing no 3. Do this project too!
Here's how to:
- First off, get together with one of your blog/flickr/etc friends. One you share a creative outlook but not geography with.
- The person going first needs to secure the film leader in some way in their camera. Either tape it securely to the take-up spool inside the camera or wind lots of masking tape round the film leader so it cannot rewind back into the canister. They also need to underexpose their shots, so if your film ISO is 100 set your camera to 200; if it's 200 set it to 400…….
- Choose your theme, shoot. Rewind the film carefully and post off to person two.
- Person two can shoot theirs at the film's ISO rating.
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