B. Kramer

He/Him. Digital & Film photographer, Tabletop/RPG/Video gamer. IT Pro. NH, USA.

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2024-04-22 16:54:46 UTC

Something for this month's camera club challenge theme "reflections". The style of image has been around for a while, but I wanted to increase the challenge a bit. Getting speedlights mounted on the backside of the trees was easy enough, and doing a reflection in post is trivial. So I said to myself: Can I do it in-camera? With some gear tricks, Yes. Could I do it on Film? Maybe? (Some other day, perhaps.)
Anyways, the trick to getting the reflection is pretty simple: Double exposure. Take the first shot with the upper half blocked with a black card. Take the second shot by tilting the camera up ~90 degrees, enable multiple-exposure mode with visibility of the first shot, place a mirror at 45 degrees in front of the lens, and then spend many minutes trying to get it all to line up just right. This probably took me around 90 minutes to accomplish. This edit uses the Out-of-camera jpg, with minor edits in @npub1jta…8zna . (~straighten, crop, saturation, contrast.) There's also some BTS photos of the setup on my @npub1seu…klue feed.
I have other ideas for how to expand on this, like changing the flash colors between shots, adding different portraits to the mix (angel/demon split?), etc. With enough gear, planning, an patience, it's very possible.
An appropriate amount of hashtags: #photography #DigitalPhotography #NikonZ7II #Nikon #FlashPhotography #creative #Reflection #PhotoChallenge #NoAI #MadeByHumans
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