begins with TtV photos.

TtV is (as far as I can tell) some obscure type of photography created people who like odd things like me. The gist of TtV, which derives its acronym from “Through the Viewfinder”, is basically taking a photo with a macro lens into the top viewfinder of a “top-down viewfinder” camera. Personally, I picked up an old Argus Seventy-five (seen below) for less than $10 on eBay.

So, all you have to do is this….
1. Create your own “box” to block out additional light between your camera and the twin lens reflex camera.
2. Find the correct distance to the twin lens reflex camera so that your camera can focus and still have the full view of the viewfinder.
3. Simple enough, snap a picture and crop as necessary.

An example can be found below from Flickr user melissajane307.

And finally, the last stage of my photo exploration will involve potential loss of life, namely my own! This type of photography is very rarely known, but is quite fascinating. Kirlian photography is when an object is placed on a photographic plate and is then connected to a high voltage source. Small coronal discharges create an “aura” of the object. At dinner on Friday night, I was discussing with my family about how much voltage can be considered lethal. No one had a clear answer, so I was told to do research and post here. Well, here is the result. Voltage isn’t considered lethal, current is….and the lethal current is more commonly stated as 20mA. Well, to do this type of photography, the high voltage generator I found produces 300mA. Surely that won’t kill me, right? But, if in my final death throes I could capture a picture like below, that would be awesome!

Update: Sorry about the cut and paste incident on the original post!