On the rocks

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.

Comments

[jachymko]

love it!