Nikon D300 Tamron 17-50mm f/2.8 @ f/5.6 ISO 400 1/60th strobist: SB-600 off camera on counter to the right
I do not often play around with editing software filters much, but last week I found myself inside a Red Cross office building with my camera in hand and no supervision. The mannequins pictured above were visible from the far end of a dark hallway and startled me at first. My next thought was I want to photograph these things!
I touched nothing. There were in the exact positions you see above. I looked around for a good place to put my SB-600 Speedlight on because I knew right away I wanted to bounce the light off one of the walls in this room to try and get an unusual lighting outcome.
Since this was just a photograph I took for fun, I then went through some of the filters I rarely ever use in Color Efex Pro 3, and settled on this one to portray a kind of psychedelic horror nightmare look. I feel it kind of makes it look like a composite shot, like all three mannequins were photographed separately then combined into this one image.
I think it is important to still have fun with one's photography from time to time as it is easy to get caught up in the business end of shooting. Who knows, maybe some day a potential client will see this image and want their own portrait made like this!
Here is the original image straight out of the camera:
original, no processing done