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The Beauty of Light Leaks: Playing with DUBBLE Film Sunstroke

Chris Gampat
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05/17/2018
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Last Updated on 05/17/2018 by Mark Beckenbach

DUBBLE Film Sunstroke is a sunkissed film emulsion with beautiful light leaks.

For years, photographers tried to negate or reduce the effect of light leaks on their film; but we began to embrace it after some time and now we’ve got DUBBLE Film Sunstroke. This film is a Kodak emulsion that has had light leaks hit it in just the right spots. Your images will otherwise come out completely normal except that they’ve got these light leaked patterns on them. This isn’t new (pre-exposed film) and other cool effects have been around for years. But it’s only since the start of the Analog Renaissance did we actually try to do this again.

Going about working with this film in my Hexar AF was a bit quirky. One of the reasons for this is because I wanted to try to predict what the effects would be based on how light leaks work. The problem though is that I’d see a scene, try to envision what the light leaks would look like, and completely forgot that with DUBBLE Film Sunstroke the light leaks have totally random patterns. I guess that adds to the charm and experimentation, but it would’ve been cool if the light leaks were at least a bit predictable. It would make for a creative challenge that actually had some sort of sense involved.

Alas, that wasn’t the case.

I shot this film and Moonstruck, but Moonstruck had a problem when the film ripped and a rep opened the canister I had it in. So the film unfortunately didn’t yield me the results I wanted either, although they would’ve been really cool. And I think this is part of the charm. With Moonstruck, you can predict things. With Sunstroke, you can’t.

In my eyes, I found this film being a bit too unpredictable. I like the idea and the effects in some of the images are very nice. But some of them just ended up looking like hipster nonsense while others were really cool. Part of this adds even more to the fact that I wish the film had consistency; because again I’d be able to go into working with it while having some sort of idea as to how I’m supposed to work with it.

I love the idea of DUBBLE Film Sunstroke. But at least for me, I found it to be too much of a gamble with film vs the consistency I can expect when I know what I’m doing. And for that, I’d recommend it only to the most adventurous of photographers.

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Chris Gampat is the Editor in Chief, Founder, and Publisher of the Phoblographer. He provides oversight to all of the daily tasks, including editorial, administrative, and advertising work. Chris's editorial work includes not only editing and scheduling articles but also writing them himself. He's the author of various product guides, educational pieces, product reviews, and interviews with photographers. He's fascinated by how photographers create, considering the fact that he's legally blind./ HIGHLIGHTS: Chris used to work in Men's lifestyle and tech. He's a veteran technology writer, editor, and reviewer with more than 15 years experience. He's also a Photographer that has had his share of bylines and viral projects like "Secret Order of the Slice." PAST BYLINES: Gear Patrol, PC Mag, Geek.com, Digital Photo Pro, Resource Magazine, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, IGN, PDN, and others. EXPERIENCE: Chris Gampat began working in tech and art journalism both in 2008. He started at PCMag, Magnum Photos, and Geek.com. He founded the Phoblographer in 2009 after working at places like PDN and Photography Bay. He left his day job as the Social Media Content Developer at B&H Photo in the early 2010s. Since then, he's evolved as a publisher using AI ethically, coming up with ethical ways to bring in affiliate income, and preaching the word of diversity in the photo industry. His background and work has spread to non-profits like American Photographic Arts where he's done work to get photographers various benefits. His skills are in SEO, app development, content planning, ethics management, photography, Wordpress, and other things. EDUCATION: Chris graduated Magna Cum Laude from Adelphi University with a degree in Communications in Journalism in 2009. Since then, he's learned and adapted to various things in the fields of social media, SEO, app development, e-commerce development, HTML, etc. FAVORITE SUBJECT TO PHOTOGRAPH: Chris enjoys creating conceptual work that makes people stare at his photos. But he doesn't get to do much of this because of the high demand of photography content. / BEST PHOTOGRAPHY TIP: Don't do it in post-production when you can do it in-camera.
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