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This one has an instant appeal to my eyes and soul, and seems like it's my turn to scratch my head to figure out how you did this gem (but explanation is not stricktly required). Kinda view into the dream world. Oh, those golden rings and those arcs of blue hose. Yeah!

 

EDIT: Now afterwards I noticed this one belonging to your hacked lens experiment... something weird going on. Go man, go on. Please!

You are correct , something weird is going on :)

 

I picked up a bunch of plastic 35 mm cameras at a thrift shop and pulled out the plastic lenses. This one came out of something called an ' Ultronic Panoramic ' camera, whatever that is suppose to mean. The important thing is that it was manufactured to very low standards. The lens in this one had two elements . I found that by using only the rear element and reversing it on the camera all sorts of odd effects materialize. For example, I can somehow see the wall behind the plumbing pipe right through the pipe ? I am guessing that the colour fringing is so severe that the pipe is actually showing up in 3 separate places. The object in the foreground with all the little circular highlight is a drinking glass with some dried flowers in it. It is always fun to have new toys to play with, and cheap toys at that, all five cameras cost me $ 4.00

Part of an initial series of experiments involving affixing lenses

hacked out of cheap plastic cameras onto my Canon 20D. Thanks for any

comments / suggestion and for taking the time to look. Also thanks in

advance to all the 3/3 raters who I suspect are gonna have a field day

with this one :)

Awesome effects, and a very creative and original idea!

if my Canon shares are going to drop I'm coming after you. Just so you know ;)

 

 

Interesting piece with a lot of circles in there. Green part in the bottom nicely lightens the pic. Sounds fun this experiment, and looks very interesting.

A bouquet created with tricks of the light. I really like this one. It has such incredible life to it. I love the whirled little "blooms" at the top, haloed by the undefinable blue thing. Another head-scratching masterpiece.

I don't know what is this, but reminds me your series of the fire images in another form. I like the big round circle, containing what looks (unbelievable ) like " liquid bubbles".....The feeling is like 3 layers the grey BG, the blue circles and the warm bubbles, you are always surprising!

Mhmm!.... When I was younger, I used to go swimming a lot; after a few laps with no goggles on, this is very much how I saw as I came out of the water. A fine experiment, that I feel can bring some very interesting results with time. Cheers,

I also am reminded of your fire circles, but this time the fire is in the center, and actually dried flowers. I really like this composition, cheap plastic lens or not. Actually, I think you'd be hard pressed to create this effect with a good lens! Oh, and Ton shouldn't worry about his Canon shares... this brings a whole new meaning to interchangeable lenses! Nice work, Gord.

Not a single 3/3. I think you befuddled them with this fascinating and productive experiment.

Christa;

 

Thanks for dropping in.

 

 

Ton;

 

Well you know where to find me :)

 

Tero;

 

Thanks. It will take some time to figure out what can be done with this idea and I am having fun finding out.

 

Jeff;

 

" undefinable blue thing" = Water pipe left over from replacing my well line. Those little circles show up anywhere that a catch light appears.

 

Pnina;

 

Some water pie a glass of dry flowers and the block wall of my basement. The inverted dismantled plastic lens did the rest :)

 

Juan;

 

I love that description, it is perfect. I am somewhat allergic to chlorine and I remember as a kid having very messed up vision whenever I swam in public pools and the world did look pretty much like this photo does. I also agree that this is a first step and more experimenting is needed to figure out how to optimize the result.

 

Joe;

 

You may be right about that befuddling theory. I seem to recall once before taunting the Anon. 3/3s to give me their best shot and on that occasion as well they failed to arrive. There may be something to be read into that observation or maybe not.

Gord, I'm trying to do some catching up on you and this one hit me! What I love about all these pictures is the sensitive treatment you give to the colour - there's never anything too highly saturated, just beautifully natural looking painting with light.

 

BTW, I've just looked up the specs in my special book for the camera you took this lens from. It's actually fitted with a special plastic X-ray lens which is the explanation for the wall being visible through the pipe!

Nice to hear from you. I have missed your insight as well as your sense of humour.

 

I tend to prefer a more pastel approach to colour than some people. Particularly with motion and blur photos, pumping up the saturation ends up looking even more garish than those bizarre supersaturated landscape photos PN is rife with.

 

I ordered some of those X-ray glasses out of the back of a comic book as a little gaffer. Sadly they did not work. All the undergarments of my pretty grade school teachers remained stubbornly resistant to the power of X-ray specs and I was obliged to continue using my imagination.

Love it.

Thanks Tony. I had fun with these home made lenses. i will have to give them another go.