Freelensing again...

[reznap]

Sometimes I get bored and play with my lens hanging off the camera. If you've never tried, unmount your lens, hold it up to the camera's mount and tilt it a little bit. Works best with focus set to infinity. You can get some cool bellows/tilt shift effects doing this. There's a small chance you could introduce dust behind your shutter but that's gonna happen anyway - live a little.

Here's a few I snapped and converted to grayscale. Nothing really great here, but I thought I'd share something a little bit different. Did these with a 50mm f/1.8, aperture unforced - so wide open.
No real editing done on any of them, except some dodging on my daughter's face in the first.
Her arm is half-tucked in her shirt, not mutated or anything

Weird plane of focus is very evident on this one..

Thanks for looking!

 

[Tulsa]

second to last just freaked me out!
very cute lil girl, but the photo is scary! Cool idea.

 

[reznap]

@ Tulsa, yeah that one came out pretty odd.

Thanks for the comments you two.

I really think this style combined with the contrasty black and white editing would be great for some abandoned locations, street shots - not sure what else. I'll have to remember to try it more often.

 

[AprilEye]

I have never heard of this before, but its very creative. Definitely like it!

 

[filmshooter]

The next to last one is fantastic! =D Awesome idea! I'll get my Konica dusty and see what I come up with! Thanks for the great idea!