Would you believe me if I told you...
that this shot has not been post-processed? that it is SOOC? that I used my point and shoot?
Don't believe me? I don't know how I can prove that all this is true, but I can tell you how I did it. Do you ever play around with the built in flash on your camera? I hate how harsh and bright images come out when I use the flash. Unfortunately, it is all I have in an indoor setting with low light. I'm not skilled enough to get good pictures without a flash indoors yet. I don't have the equipment to bounce the flash off the ceiling instead of my subject's face. I recently read about how to make your own light box for really cheap. Part of the light box was just using tissue paper (the kind you put in gift boxes) to diffuse the flash (or light source). Hmmm, what if I tried that on my camera's flash? What if I put some tissue over the flash to reduce the light? So I played around. Then I got this weird effect in the picture above. I wanted to reproduce the effect. I found out that if I took the tissue (I used toilet paper since I didn't have any gift wrap tissue) and held it just above the lens on my camera a inch or so away from the flash, it produced the effect above. I don't know why, but it did. I don't know if it is just my camera and if it is a fluke, but I thought it was pretty darn cool.
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