A recent photo assignment on another board I frequent was titled "Compose Yourself" with the requirement that you be able to tell it was you who took the shot. The example given was the photographer standing in front of a mirror so you could see him behind the camera as well as in front. ie: a reflection shot.
Thinking of how I might use a reflective surface, I shot all sorts of things with so-so results. I even tried the reflection shot Wildman did and that went South pretty quickly until I figured out where to orient the sunlight.
So after about 250 shots in various positions, orientations, shadow configurations, rainbow effects and so forth, this is what I came up with. I still like Danny's with it's 'edgy' crisp shadowy feel, but I think the hole worked well for the sky to poke through. Thank goodness I had a blue sky day! Maybe a different, tighter crop?
I used a Nikon D40x with the 18-200VR at 18mm (or as far as my arm would stretch), image cropped to what you see and flipped 180* to get Nikon to read properly.
Thoughts?
Thinking of how I might use a reflective surface, I shot all sorts of things with so-so results. I even tried the reflection shot Wildman did and that went South pretty quickly until I figured out where to orient the sunlight.
So after about 250 shots in various positions, orientations, shadow configurations, rainbow effects and so forth, this is what I came up with. I still like Danny's with it's 'edgy' crisp shadowy feel, but I think the hole worked well for the sky to poke through. Thank goodness I had a blue sky day! Maybe a different, tighter crop?
I used a Nikon D40x with the 18-200VR at 18mm (or as far as my arm would stretch), image cropped to what you see and flipped 180* to get Nikon to read properly.
Thoughts?
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