On one of my recent visits to L.A. my buddy's dad gave me these old polycontrast filters for an enlarger. I wasn't sure what to do with them at first since I don't have an enlarger. I said what the hell and just stuck it front of my camera. Off camera SB-800 was used with tungsten gel to provide some correction on my dog Stella. The end result was a pretty striking image, all done in camera. It makes a beautiful black and white conversion as well. I used a #4 I believe. I was especially intrigued by the smoothing effect it had on her. I am gonna have to mess around with this a bit more. I have done other images shooting through a Red contrast filter but I like the color of the #4. I would like to see in further images if I can provide more color correction on my subject while keeping the background as is.
Friday, April 11, 2008
On one of my recent visits to L.A. my buddy's dad gave me these old polycontrast filters for an enlarger. I wasn't sure what to do with them at first since I don't have an enlarger. I said what the hell and just stuck it front of my camera. Off camera SB-800 was used with tungsten gel to provide some correction on my dog Stella. The end result was a pretty striking image, all done in camera. It makes a beautiful black and white conversion as well. I used a #4 I believe. I was especially intrigued by the smoothing effect it had on her. I am gonna have to mess around with this a bit more. I have done other images shooting through a Red contrast filter but I like the color of the #4. I would like to see in further images if I can provide more color correction on my subject while keeping the background as is.
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