two-fer.

Two cameras, one shot… an eccentric new technique known as Through the Viewfinder (TtV) photography. Set up your shot with one camera, then position your second camera to capture the composition through the actual viewfinder of the other camera. Unconventional and strange? You bet. Totally awesome raw capture result? Right on!

I read about it in an article by Russ Morris in this month’s JPG magazine. The concept appears simple–shoot through one camera’s viewfinder to your subject–but getting a usably result can be tricky. The biggest hurdle is preventing flare, glare, and ghost reflections. Russ describes some sort of “contraption made from black art board and gaffers tape.” Master that little bit of constructive ingenuity and you got yourself a rockin’ wayback machine for getting shots with raw grit and moodiness just oozing from the screen of your fancy digicam. Beware of the confused scowl you might get from snarky pixel peepers and photoshop filter wizards.

Russ has a tutorial online if you want to try your hand at TtV. There’s also a Flickr group dedicated to the niche.