I found it really interesting how simple or complicated you could lie in photography. There are many techniques people use to push the limits of what looks convincing in a photograph, like long exposure shots in dark areas to make certain moving elements “disappear” and make the photograph light, or different plays on reflections. Can you guess how I created this picture?
Maybe looking at this version will tell you how:
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Honestly, both photographs have quite a bit of flaws and inconsistencies that I would have liked to fix better, but for the first attempt I think they are quite good.
(The answer: I took used a self-timer on my camera and took two separate photographs, one with and one without me, and tried to blend them together as best as possible in Photoshop)