I know this shot is cliché, passé, and various other “é’s” on at least a couple of levels. If this one doesn’t scare the bejezus out of you, then you must have nerves of steel! For one thing the old “camera in front of the face” shot has been done a squillion times.
Then I chose to use selective coloring. I don’t normally use it if I don’t have to, but I am surprised at the number of “civilians” (non-photographers) that love it. I have seen it used to garish and horrifying ends.
Please feel free to mention all of this if you feel the desire! But I needed to get a shot like this done.
So here is how it went…
Two lights. One lighting the shooter with a 20* grid and one snooted lighting the front of the lens. I wanted to throw some light on the front of the lens to bring secondary attention to the reflections that I had planned on compositing.
To take advantage of hoped for perspective distortion, I shot up close with my 17-40L at 40mm. The goal was to get the lens distorted and looking large. There was no special background per se. I killed ambient with shutter speed.
Special processing included the selective coloring and the lens reflections among other things!
Shot @ f/8, 1/200, ISO 400.
Manual flash, Key @ ½ & change, Lens @ ¼ & change.