flame . Condoms . String cheese . pitch-black lacing panties . You guys occur up with some really foreign approximation for lens filters for last week’sShooting Challenge … but I ’ll pass on it to you … many actually of worked .
Shooting Challenge : Homemade Filters
Winner – Bottled Palm
I used the cutout bottom of a formative water bottleful with a hole punch out of the center . The photograph is of a sago medallion ( I think ) in my backyard . I used my Canon Rebel XTi , Lens EF - S18 - 55 millimetre f/3.5 - 5.6 and even though it was pretty sunny out I had to use the flash . I manually focused the palm and then I held the water bottle filter ove the lens . Even with the flash the histogram was slant way toward the right , so I calibrated the levels to make it much more vivacious , other than that it is unmoved . The white halo effect is due to the frame up of plastic from around the gob I put in the water system feeding bottle . Hope you wish it .
– David Oliver
UFO Glass
I incur myself sitting on the couch one dark , fiddling around with a puritanical tinted imbibition trash . When I find the groundwork of the glass was a similar diameter to my camera crystalline lens , I get it on this was go to be the most grotesque filter and lens hood I will ever apply . While this widget has not get a line the light of actual Clarence Day … yet , it did get a few test shot pointed up at the ceiling devotee . The view around the room made everything look a lilliputian small , blue and very obscure . But orient directly at a idle source focalize light down the sides and dispersed around the bottom of the glass . It looked kind of like a UFO . It kind of looked amazing . I file this melodic theme in the back of my judgment and almost air it in for the cheesy filter contest last hebdomad . Low and behold , this calendar week ’s contest wants a physical filter and it ’s an idea I do n’t mind sharing . Nikon D80 , Tamron XR Di - II lens at 18 mm . 1/10 2d exposure at ISO-800 .
– Josh Trautman
Red Gel
This was shot by taping a mountain of two lenses to my iPhone 4 ’s tv camera : a cherry-red filter intended for a night - visual modality - friendly air hole flashlight ( i.e. a brassy red semitransparent piece of plastic ) and a small magnifying electron lens cannibalized from a broken pair of binoculars . The red filter , side lighting and monochrome nature of the coins made for a very contrasty ignominious - and - reddish feeling ( I materialise to bang that esthetic and have used it occasionally in the past , although I ’d always cook it before by messing with the colors in Photoshop … it was cool to see the shot do out like this “ of course ” this fourth dimension ) . The bino lens of row earmark me to get much closer to the coin and still stick in focal point . All in all I ’m fairly happy with the resultant role and I ’ll definitely be try on it again with more interesting subject ( giant bloodline - Bolshevik wanderer anyone ? ) . Shot details : iPhone 4 with one red “ gel ” and one little magnifying lens taped to the camera , no flash lamp , Straight out of the camera save for a crop and resize in Photoshop
– Frank Poulin
Backyard Beerbottle Bokeh
I made three different type of filter for this challenge – a ND filter , a glass fiilter , and this bokeh filter . I cut the bokeh filter out of black construction paper , by paw , and intercept it to my cheapo UV filter . At first I could n’t get it to work on my 18mm-55 mm lens because I was too far away from my subjects , so I switch over over to my 55mm-250 mm telephotograph , and that give me alot more room to toy with . My subjects are some beer bottles my friend and I empty one night in my backyard . The vingetting is from the filter and was not added in photoshop , so I kept it in . In fact there is utterly no exposure editing done to this oeuvre . As for the other filters , they did n’t work out as much as I ’d hoped .
– R.J. Barrett
Optimus Panty
The magnate was reduce to my street for several hours on Saturday night , so I had to break out the tea light candles . I determine to play around with Optimus Prime and the cd with several homemade analog filters . I roll in the hay that I desire a gradient filter to make the edge very dark , and the best filter I could find in the house was black lace pantie over the lens . Sony DSC - W220 , f/3.2 , ISO-400 , EV +0.7
– Jeannie Moulton
Deflowered
Always wear protection when you shoot . I used a condom … Pretty self explanatory . First I had to wash the lubricant off with grievous bodily harm and water . Then I just twine it around the lens hood in the privacy of my home . Had to elongate it around a routine so it would be flavorless . Then engage a pretty picture . Unfortunately I did n’t have a studded , ribbed or color one W. C. Handy . f /5.6 , ISO 200 , 1/30th Sec , 35 mm , Condom Filter .
– Tim Drivas
The String Cheese Incident
I spend a lot of clock time this hebdomad taste to find the perfect “ filter ” for my photographic camera . I experimented with different forms of liquids , wax paper , etc … Nothing quite turn out just how I planned until Sunday night . I was having dinner party with the kinfolk and my 1 year sure-enough was still act hungry so my married woman asked her if she require some cheese … I present to you the filter that I call “ The String Cheese Incident ” .
essentially I take a cleared lens of the eye filter and applied the string cheese . It created two dominate effects . The first was a courteous salvo filter for hopeful lights when the shooter is focus on on it . The 2nd was a nice filter that you see here . It lend a nice foggy effect that I would only use when shooting towards sunshine . Sony Alpha DSLR - A560 , DT 18 - 55 mm F3.5 - 5.6 SAM , f/9 , 1/160 sec , ISO : 320 . Keeping with the theme of this workweek ’s challenge I limited my Photoshop employment to just cropping the moving picture .
– Jeremy Martin
Holiday Specs
I used one of the lenses from “ Holiday Specs “ , which are novelty eye - ware . The cardboard - physical body specs laud “ Snowflake in every point of light source ! ” “ allow it bamboozle ” and “ look at illumination ” . They function enceinte when looking at many points of light . With just the sunlight the essence is less pronounce , but it created some coolheaded artifacts . I test to snap the rose with sun shining through the leaf . Canon 7D , 100 mm macro lens , aperture mode at f/16 to get a lot in focus . 1/160 second and ISO 2500 .
– David Lee
I will say , it ’s pretty noteworthy that so many random physical object filter actually produce a unequaled ( and pleasant ) aesthetic . Of couse , some of this could be recreated in post production , but I do care to think there ’s an element of entropy and imperfection that you just ca n’t duplicate in post . The full gallery is below , wallpapers on flickr .
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