Tilt my deck

Right, last week in Amateur Photographer I saw a piece about using old lenses on your digital SLR where they used an enlarger lens called a Wray 3 3/4" Supar f4.5. It's a tiny thing not much bigger than a plum and basically you hold it in your hand in front of the camera (remove all other lens before you do this) in a way that you stop as much light as possible passing round the outside of your hand and into the camera body. I'm not explaining this very well. Anyway, it's really awkward but with a bit of perseverance I managed to get a few shots off. There's no focussing ring so you have to move the lens backwards and forwards to get focus. You can also manipulate it left or right, down or up to achieve a kind of tilt-shift effect - as in this shot where you see some perspective distortion and the plane of focus going diagonally through the shot from front to back (it was drizzling outside so I was stuck in the house shooting out of an upstairs window).

More to come on this one - I need to perfect my technique first! (jrc313 told me it's called 'freelensing')