Vanishing

From Photo of the day (2009)

I am having fun with my flash and tripod. I was half asleep at work this morning because of the time change (had to get up at the equivalent of 3:30 am - ergh) and it was cold so I didn't take shots there.

I saw an entry in DP Challenge with this technique - using a long shutter speed, a rear curtain flash, and the removal of one one object in the photo to make said object appear to be vanishing or ghostly. I made do with some props in the house. This is the same jalepeno as was featured in the banana shot a few days ago. It has quite the talent!

I had to play with the colour a bit and increase the shadows to make my "black" background appear more black and correct the colours.