Sometimes it’s a fun photographic exercise to get creative, bend the rules, and stretch the limits a bit. The images below are partly some combination of creative lighting, fabricated components, or unusual camera angles.  Each is a single image, there is no compositing, and there is no image manipulation in post processing that materially contributes to the result other than typical cropping and tonal adjustments. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

Complicated shot through glass, upside down

Studio strobe high left creating evening sunshine effect

Still life assembled in basement and illuminated by flash simulating warm light through window

Flash shot through gobo for complex directional light through glass

Lit from below through glass and frosted acetate for diffuse lighting

Basement setup with flash through cardboard cutout window simulation, matboard wall

Shot from second-story deck, fill flash from right

Fake moon projected on blue-lit background, aluminum foil for water

Flag fabricated from poster board, cutout stars, cash register tape for stripes

Ducks drawn on clear acetate laid over set

Life size head drawing made and positioned for glasses

Gelled flash shot through gobo for circular effect

Gelled flash inside lampshade triggered remotely

Wake of newspaper text fabricated by computer program and printed out for background

Distorted perspective cutout pieces of paper arranged on black acrylic reflecting blue/purple background

Arranged in basement, shot from above with subject on floor

Kayak on saw horses, fan for wind, fill flash, spray bottle for water

Found barbwire bent into shape and suspended in place with monofilament fishing line

Gelled flash shot into torchiere bowl

Shot skyward through glass with oak leaf on it, another suspended by fish line

Basement shot with storm window sprayed with water