This image is an in camera double exposure made in May 2022 on Kodak Portra 800 film, using a Super Fujica 6 from 1955, modified (aka broken) to allow for double exposures. The main subject, which is part of the second exposure, is East Vidette peak in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California. A friend and I were on a backpacking trip in the area and photographing this peak was something I had been looking forward to. Unfortunately, the forecast for the day we would be reaching it was for overcast skies and I was confident that I wouldn't be happy with the light. That morning, however, we came across a cascade in Bubbs Creek not long after sunrise. The light in that location was great, and I decided to go for this double exposure. The first frame is the cascading creek with a column of steam centered on the lower third and the trees in the background. I placed the sun out of the top center of the frame, knowing that pointing a lens this old anywhere near the sun was a definite risk, at least in a rangefinder where you can't see what your lens is seeing. Several hours of hiking later, the image of the mountain was added. I placed the bottom of the ridge above the point where I had previously placed the top of the cascade, and the peak in the center under where I hoped the sun hadn't flared too badly. I took one frame of the creek before this which was nothing special, and one of the mountain by itself after this frame, which was just as bland as I'd feared it would be. The result of this double exposure, however, couldn't have come out much better in my book. I am, of course, aware that the bottom of the ridge doesn't perfectly align with the steam column at the center of the frame, but moving farther up the trail to make this work put a giant tree in the foreground of the second frame, so I went back and took it from this location. Also, you would have to put your eye up to one of these viewfinders to believe how shockingly bad they are by modern standards, so I felt lucky just to have avoided the peak getting cut off in the top of the frame. Maybe I should have submitted this to the "difficult shots" contest.
Post processing- I set the white point and black point in Lightroom, and darkened the trees behind the peak to create tonal separation between the trees, the peak, and the sky.