So my friend at
Illuminate Photography took a few photos of me and introduced me to "freelensing". Nope, not freelancing. Free-
lensing. Freelensing is an inexpensive way of getting the unique
effect of an expensive tilt-shift lens you’re your DSLR camera. Tilt-shift is
when the focus plane is thrown out of whack with the added bonus of natural
light leaks. You can see this in the first 2 photos below.
I tried to take a few photos using this technique and it's quite difficult. You hold the camera with one hand, take the lens off, and then while holding it closely to the camera body, maneuver the focus so that your subject is in focus. And then you just play around. Tilting it slightly to make wonderful painting-like photographs.
