![]() ![]() ISO 200 | f3.5 | 1/80th sec Concave side. ISO 200 | f3.5 | 1/60th sec – Convex side towards the lens The slower shutter speed also blurred the effect in a trippy way. I liked that when I put my eye in the middle of the kaleidoscope lens it gave me 20 eyes. ISO 200 | f 3.5 | 1/320th sec – The faster shutter speed froze things in an unusual way. While I like to do as much a possible within the camera, I usually polish my photos with either Lightroom or Exposure or both. I edited these images with a custom warming filter I created in Alien Skin Exposure. I accidentally left the aspect ratio at 16:9 but kind of liked the more panoramic look. When I turned the glasses to the concave side of the lenses, it gave me a completely different effect than when I tried the convex side. I really liked that some are more whimsical and some are more demonic. I leaned over the camera because I wanted to have just a simple background – the sky – and I also figured tossing my hair would add some extra dimension to the photos. ![]() I tried the glasses out to take some wacky self-portraits. I’m a member of a social group for photographers in Costa Rica (I highly recommend joining photography network groups in your area), and we had a self-portrait assignment due the same week as we were filming the episode. I like using a simple prism to create abstract reflections in my work, but I really wanted to see what would happen with more beveled glass… which is what motivated me to get the kaleidoscope lenses. Thanks to following a really cool experimental wedding photographer named Sam Hurd ( go check him out), I began playing a lot with prisms and really loved the effect. ![]()
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