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This Week's Theme: "Filtered For Your Protection"

Description: Use some sort of filter to distort or alter your image. Explain your method of filtering in your post. Note: Must use physical filters, lenses, common household materials, etc. No in-camera digital filters or post-processing filters in Photoshop, GIMP, etc.


We ask that before submitting your photos you read and adhere to the following submission rules, including but not limited to the following:

- Submissions must be photographs; screen captures do not count as photographs.
- You must be the original photographer of your entry. Do not submit anyone else's photography as your own.
- You are only allowed to enter a photograph once. Do not submit the same photo to another contest later.
- You may enter 3 photos in each contest as long as each photo is of a different composition.
- Please post each photo separately so they can be voted for individually.


Please note:

The overarching ideal behind Farktography is that image corrections are acceptable, while adding or removing elements in the image (e.g. removing telephone poles, adding Elvis) is not acceptable. HDR, stitching, or otherwise combining exposures in post processing are not allowed unless specified for a particular theme (multiple exposures done in-camera are acceptable, however). See the rules for more information on acceptable modifications, or check in at the Farktography Forums.


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"Pink Flowers Through the Viewfinder"


Shot with my Canon 30D and Tamron 28-75 lens through the ground glass viewfinder of a Beattie Imperial 90 4x5 twin lens reflex camera.

Shot with a tripod mounted D80. Since the camera was pointed into the sunset, and lightning shots typically require a long exposure to have much luck, I needed to increase my exposure time.

Filters used: CPL stacked on top of a 3 stop ND filter, providing about 5 stops of light loss. This took my exposure time from 1/80" to 2/5".

This picture is the sun setting over the Gallatin Mountains, just south of Livingston, MT. This strike was less than a mile from where I was standing, after getting this shot I decided to pack it up and head home.

/film with amber filter

One of two, prescription sunglasses.

"Cock-eyed"


aka "Condom Cam"--shot with a condom over the lens and the camera on a tripod at the appropriate standing height.

Two of two, prescription sunglasses.

"Pear Blossoms Through the Viewfinder"

Shot with my Canon 30D and Tamron 28-75 lens through the bubble glass viewfinder of a 50+ year old Kodak Brownie Reflex Synchro.

/acid dropping rabbit with some weird filter that did not do what I thought it would

Fish-eye View


(pops larger)

Shot through a vase filled with water to explain why your goldfish is so nervous-looking all the time.

Playboy Barbie


(pops larger)

Package contents: Doll, bed and petroleum jelly for the camera lens.
Clothing and mood lighting sold separately.

/film with macro filter
//negative is damaged: stupid processor

Upper Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park
Triple exposure on 35mm Ektachrome with a Nikon F3. Each exposure is through a different color filter, either red, green or blue. Where objects appear in all three exposures, they look normal, but objects moving through each exposure, like people, clouds or droplets of water, take on a color hue.

full image

/film, sepia tone with macro filter. no voting because I converted it to sepia. I just like it.

+4 close up filter.

Alum Creek Dam, Columbus, Ohio
Shot on 120 Ektachrome E100VS with a twin-lens Mamiya C220. Triple exposure of spring runoff water being released from the dam.

larger image

Screen as filter on a crappy November 1st.

Candle holder...

shot with the camera behind a mosquito headcover because it was raining approx. 4,000 gallons a minute while I was taking the shot. Also a neutral-density filter to slow down the water.

took this on my lunch break a few months ago. this is what I have just minutes from my office in downtown.

warming filter on an already spectacular sunrise. click to see it larger, it really makes a difference.

Not a stitched panoramic. Crop from a 12mm lens.

this is a shot at midnight, under a full moon. I had a polarizing filter on to see what it would do, and there may have been others as well. Neutral Density, various color filters, I was on a roll that night. Not a star filter, that's just caused by stopping down. I was just off of knee surgery and had no business standing on the surface of a frozen lake by myself all hopped up on pain pills, but there I was.

click for larger.

Pinellas County Afternoon Summer Storm



Details:
Canon XTi
ultraviolet polarizing filter
1/50 sec
f/5.6
ISO 100
July 9, 2009
2:38:07PM

QueenBee: All filters are homemade. This one was one with red shrink wrap

that's fantastic.

1/1 because I forgot about this theme.

soosh: that's fantastic.

Thanks! That means a lot coming from you :)

Pantyhose Filter

/Seemed like an obvious use of the spare leg
//Really ends in more fail

ND-10

/The filter lets in 1/1000 of the light, so I get nice soft water.

SilverStag: Homemade grad ND filter

How do you make your own graduated ND? I want one, but don't want to spend the money on a high quality store-bought one right now.