Freelensing

Freelensing is a technique where a photograph is taken with the camera lens physically separated from the camera body. Because it just uses the lenses you already have, it is virtually zero-cost. This unpredictable but creative approach creates beautiful light leaks, and tilting the lens even a modest amount turns the in-focus area volume into a wedge, allowing for shots with unconventional depth-of-field.

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Kaitlan5

Venezia

Every light has a story

A high vantage point and careful placement of the lens can be used to create the illusion of miniaturizing the scene below, emulating the effect achieved with tilt-shift lenses – all without the need to fake the effect in post-processing.

Smooth Sea

Final Inning

Photos from Pierre Pocs Photography, Muhammad Barrrrnnneey, onemor_etime, Daniel, Marina Nozyer, Sebastian Angulo and Jacob Waites.

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Bhautik Joshi

I'm a Data Scientist working at Flickr :] I'm passionate about the art and science of photography, taking apart and building my own camera gear as well as regularly heading out to take pictures. You can see my photos on my Flickr stream here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/captin_nod/