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Playing with long exposure shots...

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A different kind of TTL flash photography... Normally light is supposed to go into the lens and out again via the viewfinder, but the opposite is possible too. For this shot I fired a flash through the viewfinder at the back of a Canon 5D mk2. Part of the light reflects against the back of the camera and lights up the background, revealing the silhouette of the camera.

Strobist: 1 Nikon SB900, optical trigger, at back of camera fired into viewfinder (sorry, probably the weirdest strobist description ever :-)

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I took this photo a while ago but have been experimenting with it again lately because I wanted to achieve a certain look. What I was going for is a soft, almost painting-like background, and a more contrasty, slightly oversharpened subject and foreground. I’ve seen those two style applied separately, but I thought that by combining them I could really make the subject jump out and at the same time create a somewhat surreal effect.

When I took the shot I purposely placed the flash visibly within the frame. One reason was that when shooting with a fisheye lens you have such a wide field of view that it’s almost impossible to place a flash outside the frame and still cast any significant amount of light on your subject. But it also makes the whole scene look a bit less serious.

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An ultra-short experimental film...

Experimental flash photography of a glass artwork created by Michael Edward Jones.

Experimental flash photography of a glass artwork created by Michael Edward Jones.