A child shot with a bit of trickery thrown in. The original is a
medium format colour slide and the idea came from a trick our
youngest son, pictured here, had acquired on holiday in Majorca.

The picture is a double exposure in the camera, as it needs to be
in this case. A mono version could have been done in the darkroom
from two separate negatives.




I use a rules viewfinder screen in the Mamiya camera, which helps
set up such shots - but is not obligatory. The child was
carefully lit with brolly flash and shot leaving space above his
head.

Using the double exposure device, the shutter was cocked again
without winding the film and the halo shot to complete the
effect. Obviously the background must be black for both shots.

The halo is a disk of white card, lit with yellow light and shot
out of focus - as simple as that.



All that's needed is a bit of thought.