14/365: Doppelganger

Another one from the archives. See? I told you I was running out of ideas. Actually, I just ran out of time today, busy busy. And this one deserves to be posted. It's from July of '09. Hit the jump for more...

After shooting architecture all day in Old Snowmass, CO, my buddy Keith and I had a beer and begin playing with long exposures, painting with light, and multiple flash pops in one exposure. This is one frame, a 30 sec exposure at f/10. Keith posed as the victim first, I manually popped a handheld flash from just outside the right of the frame, slightly behind him, then he moved to the spitter location, and I mirrored my own position and popped another flash. We did it only once. Keith is a great writer and actor, not to mention a cool dude to drink a beer with, and he nailed the performance first try. I think we went and complained about our jobs after this...