small head

Years ago when I was in film school, I was told that putting a lens onto a camera backwards could create a macro focus. It seemed like an odd and potentially damaging idea so I've never tried it. Last year Erik Sirke turned in some amazing photos using this technique and explained the simplicity of it. Again, I didn't try it, until today. I've been thinking about it for a few weeks as I'd like to use this approach for my puppet film which would use matches as the puppets. While you have very limited ability to focus on anything but one plane, that plane is very close. Above is a match head puppet I've built as a trial (uncropped image, I get get back any further than this). .My video today also uses this technique.