Levitation Photography Tips: Can You Float Like This?
by Luke Walker
You can get some very cool and funny pictures by experimenting with levitation photography and it is also plenty of fun to try it out with one or two mates. You'll probably find that you can get the best photos if you step outside and have fun practicing this with a few different friends. These are my levitation photography tips.
Setting Things Up
Getting everything set up is pretty easy to accomplish. It is best to work with a fast shutter speed and hopefully a tripod if you have one, particularly if you are doing it by yourself.
Something to point out is that you have to launch your body into the air and pose to make it look like you're floating while shooting, which means the expression on your face needs to be there as well as the position of your body. Some things that work well are pretending to be confused, as though you aren't exactly certain what is going on.
Creating an interesting composition works wonders, and you can take the time to work on this before shooting by considering what you'd like to have surrounding the subject. Do you want people in the shots?
If you're not the shy type, you could do this in a busier urban area, and you will have onlookers watching you. This can add to the drama as well, because they too will be showing surprised expressions.
One great little secret tip is to act as though you are levitating just outside a shop entrance/exit. As people walk outside, they will naturally be caught off guard to see you catapulting yourself into the air, and their natural surprised expressions, if captured in the photos, will add to the excitement and story of each picture.
Clothing & Hair
Some things can easily make your photos look obviously fake, like clothing or hair that makes it blatant that you are jumping in the shot. One small piece of advice is to wear more tightly fitting clothes that can't move out from your body by too far. Tucking your shirt into your pants also helps.
To prevent your hair from making it obvious that you are jumping, you could wear a hat. You could also choose the option of shaving off your hair too, though I'm sure most of my female readers won't be going that far.
When To Take The Shot
The photos will be more realistic if you take the photo during the upwards motion of the jump, instead of when he or she is coming back down to earth under the planetary gravitational pull.
As I mentioned already, you will be using a very fast shutter speed in order to freeze the motion of the subject in mid air. You might be best off using around 1/500 of a second, or even 1/1000 of a second.
Once your model had enough time to practice some professional jumping styles and you have the right settings on your camera, the next thing to do is to walk around and find some more interesting places to shoot it. Like I said, the background should help you to get some great photos.
Making Use Of Props
Another great little technique is to hold an object and throw it up a little bit into the air as you jump, to make it appear as though the object is also floating with you. There are hundreds of objects you could use, but I don't recommend anything that would be too expensive to break, for the obvious reason that you could fail to catch it when you jump. If you really want to use something like a camera or an iPhone, you can buy fake ones that look real enough for the shot.
So there we are. Levitation photography can be a very fun activity to try out with friends, so go outside and levitating in mid air with a confused look on your face!
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