my girlfriend has this vanity mirror thing, it's one of those that has a regular mirror on one side, and a concave mirror on the other. so i figured i might get some sweet distortions if i shoot into it. so i set it up, and played around with it. i quite like the results. the picture has a sort of a drifting focus to it.... not quite like a tilt shift lens, not quite like a purposefully out of focus shot, kinda like a funhouse mirror, but very subtle.
i had to go with manual focus on this one, since autofocus would've wanted to take pictures of the surface of the mirror, and not what the mirror's reflecting. to make my manual pre-focusing easier, i tightened up on the aperture to f9.0 at 1/160th of a second. worked out allright.
the setup shot is for a variation i did after i did the closeups.... i wanted more distortion, so i positioned the camera and mirror on one side of the room, and my lights and myself on the other. hence the extra wide double-setup shot, and the obvious differences between the picture up there and the setup shot down there.
setup shot:
results of setup shot:
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