I wish I could have claimed that I'd taken this shot, but I cant, I found it on-line. Having been an Advertising & Commercial photographer since I was 19 yrs old and having served on the commitee for our professional photography organisation, I can say that I love this shot ! If you HAVE to get your reflection in a Museum Glass window while photographing armour, then this must surely be the ultimate way to do it !! It even approaches the fine art look and I must give the photographer credit for thinking of the idea as well as pulling it off so well !! Its taken by a gent named only as D.D.M. at FlickR and is at the Musée de l'Armée, Paris. Well done Mr D. D. M. !!

No! It's the ghost of D.D.M.! :eek:

Damn, that's a cool photo op. I'm going to have to steal his idea. Rather shamelessly, too, I imagine. :D

That is a really neat photo! I agree with Sam - it looks very 'ghostly'. Thanks for posting it, Merv.

Neat little camera trick.

On a completely unrelated note, you wouldn't by any chance have more photos of this armour and any more info about it? The "strapping" over the shoulders has me intrigued.

Thanks!

The funniest thing about the photo (and this is probably obvious to everyone already) is that normally in a museum setting, the glass case presents a reflection problem for photographs... so instead of fighting it, the photographer has chosen to play with it instead.

Bravo!

Attached is another photo with a similar effect.

It can be found in this Pbase Gallery.

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