Final Hand-In: Provisions

Experimenting

 

Tonight I experimented with some tricks that would filter light.

The first is called bokeh. Bokeh are the soft circles in the background of some photographs made by shooting with a large aperture.

I first found out about the bokeh effect from this website:
http://improvephotography.com/8806/photography-tricks/

Apparantly it is possible to change the bokeh from circles into other shapes simply by cutting out a ciclre in black paper that can fit over your lens and then cutting the desired shape into the center of the paper.

Here are some examples

 

Images from:

http://photojojo.com/store/awesomeness/bokeh-kit/
http://fstoppers.com/making-your-own-bokeh-shapes-by-matt-from-make-magazin
http://x0d.xanga.com/e6af856137434269693955/b215120664.jpg


I thought I could give this a go so I cut out a small cross and stuck it over the camera lense.

They didn't work out very well, maybe I had the aperture wrong, regardless, it is something I'd like to look into at another stage.




The other light filter that I tried was coloured celophane.

This worked and reminded me of my first project with coloured television light; however the images I took had no substance to them, they were just images shot from sitting on the couch. If I was going to continue using celophane I would need to plan my images and capture something worthwhile.

I will continue exploring.