Tuesday, April 28, 2009

week 16 "reflection"

 
 
 
this week's contest is "reflection". and just as the theme states the picture must have a reflection of a face in it. mitch and i worked together to come up with the most creative "reflection" we could think of. again, we threw around some ideas, but they seemed too common. so, we decided to get a little crazy. okay, not really "crazy" just "different"!
 
adult category
 
for this shot we went outside to utilize the natural (and bright) light to get the effect we needed. we put the macro lens on the camera and got up close and personal! i held a square mirror in front of my face so you can see my face reflecting in the mirror. but then we took it one step further...
 
mitch got behind me. with the camera mounted on a tripod looking over my shoulder, he manually focused on my eye. if you look closely, you can see, reflected in my eye, the mirror with the reflection of my face in it. does that make sense?
adultseventies
 
pretty cool, huh?
 
kids category
 
same idea as above, but i took the picture of mitch's eye. in the reflection of his eye you can see me behind the camera and kale'a next to me in the white shirt.
kids reflection seventies
 
 
go check out the other creative entries for this weeks contest!

16 comments:

Grace said...

Mahina, those pictures look really cool! You are very creative

Drew said...

I thought about doing this but honestly thought there was no way to really get a clear picture. You've proven me wrong! This is incredible. I love it!

Esther said...

that is awesome...i love them both!

jessica said...

VERY COOL! I love them both!

tutu lady said...

Very nice! Did you have to take lots of photos to get these two? Did you do any other refections. Great teamwork.

Anonymous said...

What a great shot -- you are sure to win. TFS

Lexie Loo, Lily, Liam & Dylan Too said...

Great shots-very creative!

Rhonda said...

These are the best reflection in the eye images I've seen so far. Nice job.

kandra said...

How awesome is that!? Congrats on being in the top 10 last week, I hope you make it again!

Lauren in GA said...

Oh, my gosh you are going to place again. Those are amazing!

Kim said...

WOW! Both of those photos are amazing. I tried to do it but none of them came out the way that I wanted. Kuddos to you! I think I like the kid entry the best.


I played too...come on over!

jennifer said...

oh love this site for such great ideas like this! i hope to see yours posted again saturday. these are SO fun and well done.

Scott-n-Allison said...

I like the pics, but I am even more impressed with how well your eyebrows are tweezed...not a stray hair anywhere! How do you do that?

Anonymous said...

Amazing job!! :-D

Katt said...

Very creative! Love both of them!

Keri said...

Very cool and creative!