Focused on mouth / teeth, turned off lights, took photo with bounce flash pointing the other direction so keep mouth dark, move person out the way, remove speedlite flash from camera, crouch model against black background and fire flash to expose the crouching model so as to appear he is in the mouth... end exposure.
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I was one of your 7s - thought it technically very good, although it didn't resonate as much with me as a final image. I'm curious as to how you got the hands to disappear entirely behind the teeth, rather than having some ghosting.
It is quite simple really. I had my palms facing straight up (as though I was pushing on the ceiling). It also helped that the flash was fired by hand from a low position (see the knee shadow)so the palms were almost perfectly black. I just happened to get get good positioning after about 40 shots... the other shots overlapped badly or were no where near the teeth. Hope that clears up a few issues.
I was one of your 7s - thought it technically very good, although it didn't resonate as much with me as a final image. I'm curious as to how you got the hands to disappear entirely behind the teeth, rather than having some ghosting.
It is quite simple really. I had my palms facing straight up (as though I was pushing on the ceiling). It also helped that the flash was fired by hand from a low position (see the knee shadow)so the palms were almost perfectly black. I just happened to get get good positioning after about 40 shots... the other shots overlapped badly or were no where near the teeth. Hope that clears up a few issues.
I was one of your 7s - thought it technically very good, although it didn't resonate as much with me as a final image. I'm curious as to how you got the hands to disappear entirely behind the teeth, rather than having some ghosting.
Thanks to everyone for the wonderful comments. I am very happy to finish in top 10 seeing it is my highest finish... but I was sectretly hoping for a higher placing :-) Would really love the people that gave me votes of 1-4 to comment so I can see why they gave low scores and try to improve.
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