Levitation!

[JoshuaSimPhotography]

Recently there have been some amazing pics of levitation photography going around on the site. SO I decided to start this thread! I’m sure that many of you would have not tried it before, but when you do, you’ll get hooked (it’s basically a drug)! It involves a subject to look as if it was floating in mid air, giving a sense of ecstasy. So if you want to try it, here are some links for tutorials or inspiration.

‚æ‚í‚æ‚íƒJƒƒ‰ƒE[ƒ}ƒ““ú‹L(yowayowa) famous levitation photographer
How to do Levitation Photography - YouTube
Photoshop How To - Levitation - When Light Falls - YouTube
Photography Tutorial: How To Float In Mid Air - YouTube

Levitation has a neat effect! Give it a try or post some pics you already took!

Looking forward to seeing the pics,
J SIM

 

[The Barbarian]

Or you could find someone who actually does levitate.

 

[bleeblu]

The Ease of Falling by Mark Harless, on Flickr

 

[JoshuaSimPhotography]

Wow nice!

 

[rexbobcat]

Tried it today. I'll probably try again tomorrow if I can think of neat ways to do it in a less generic way. lol

 

[JoshuaSimPhotography]

Glad that someone tried it! Nice pic!

 

[jake337]

Tried it today. I'll probably try again tomorrow if I can think of neat ways to do it in a less generic way. lol

Just needs some shadows for realism.

 

[rexbobcat]

Tried it today. I'll probably try again tomorrow if I can think of neat ways to do it in a less generic way. lol

Just needs some shadows for realism.

That's how it actually looked, though. It was a really rainy day. Heh. In the first one there's a really small shadow from the stool I was on but that's all there was with the super diffused light.

If I added more shadows it would look odd since the lighting is pretty even throughout. I don't think it'd be possible without it looking too fake.

 

[JoshuaSimPhotography]

Hmm, I understand what u mean by the lighting, it is quite a dark day. But is still great!

 

[The Barbarian]

The second shot is remarkably good for a first time attempt. You look very relaxed, and engrossed in the book.

 

[JoshuaSimPhotography]

Yeah, most levitation shots should be elegant and not trying to actually represent ‘I’m floating, OMG!'

 

[Photographiend]

The Ease of Falling by Mark Harless, on Flickr

This is so freakishly amazing! Did you really do that? Wow... *drools*

I should clear up that I am not into chicks. Just amazing photography.

 

[rbeistegui]

rexbobcat, the methodology you used was the one of the bench, right? or jumped?

In the tutorials there are 2 different ways of taking this type of pictures, how do you think this girl Yowayowa takes the pictures? jumping?

 

[JoshuaSimPhotography]

Yes, she is frozen has no editing. the Digital Rev vid explains that. But, she had a friend who took the pics, and rexbc was using a bench. As it is veery hard to freeze urself…by yourself!

 

[jake337]

Yes, she is frozen has no editing. the Digital Rev vid explains that. But, she had a friend who took the pics, and rexbc was using a bench. As it is veery hard to freeze urself…by yourself!

Remote trigger and timer on 10 seconds should do the trick.