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Yellow Flowers
Yellow Flowers
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Challenge: Yellow V (Advanced Editing VII*)
Camera: Olympus E-520
Date: Aug 24, 2010
Date Uploaded: Aug 24, 2010

 I've been experimenting lately with improvised optics. This was taken with a homemade lens. The lens is made from two rolls of toilet paper with a piece of plastic (Fresnel) magnifier duct taped to one end. The two cardboard rolls are nested to enable a very crude means of focusing by scoping them in or out. As luck would have it, the paper roll fits snugly in the lens mount of Olympus E-520.

The results are crude and probably won't appeal to the masses (I'm guessing this browned). But there's something very satisfying about creating your own optical device and getting results that render anything at all. The images feel much more personal than what you get from serious glass. Anyway, I thought I'd share.

Some other images made using this "lens":


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 08/31/2010 08:12:47 PM
you can almost feel it move.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
08/31/2010 01:02:20 PM
Oh... I see....
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 08/30/2010 06:55:49 PM
Perhaps one of the mythical birds arising from rebirth in fire.
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 08/28/2010 06:59:57 AM
There are lots of yellow flowers here. The blur in this image reduces the "flowerness" and puts the emphasis on the color. Very nice.
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 08/25/2010 05:46:32 AM
The blur really distracts from the subject ...
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 08/25/2010 03:15:18 AM
Congrats on the brown.
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