Double Exposures

For my experimental brief, I wanted to do something totally out of my nature. So, I went back to film. I'm not great with film, I've never used it properly, mainly because in this day and age its quite a rare thing to see someone in a dark room. I'm not against film photography in the slightest, I am very envious of people who have that skill, as they are keeping the beginning processes of photography alive in there work.  

As I student, I can't afford to try developing in the dark room four or five times so I thought I would go back to my childhood and try to create some double exposures with a disposable camera. I felt that this way, I would be able to have a film effect with it still being affordable. My purpose of this was to create a ghostly effect using a camera, as I have recently been looking at a lot of Spirit Photography and wanted to create something of my own that was spirit like, but with more of a landscape theme rather than a portrait one. I read somewhere that if you use a disposable camera, the way to create a double exposure is to take a photograph, then without winding the film wheel on is to charge the flash and give the camera a good whack on your hand, arm or a hard surface. I went out and tested, and this is what I ended up with;

These are just some of the photographs that worked. I find that some of them have a Lomography style, which I may try and get into. Also, you may notice the red patches in the photographs, don't worry, it's just where the camera hit off my sleeve, unfortunately! However I still think the double exposure gives off a ghostly effect. It might be because you can't clearly see the photograph, so it gives off an eerie feeling. As you can see on the day I was taking my photographs it was raining, so naturally the sky was dark which has left a good effect from the flash going off in the double exposure, leaving the impression of a strange light which I think is quite a nice effect on the overall photograph.