Photo Challenge: Create-A-Filter
Posted by Kit Richert — 4 Jun 2009
Has it been a while since you got experimental with your photography? Well we have a fun project for you. Create-A-Filter is a challenge that we hope will get you out this weekend, to rummage through your scrap pile or medicine cabinet for the makings of your very own homemade filter.
It may sound hard to make a filter, but it's really not. Filtering effects can be achieved with just about anything with transparent or translucent properties. Candy wrappers, screens, fabric, and gel... will each warp your shot in different ways. The most imaginative filter we've seen so far has been a plastic baggy filled with sprite.
Read the guidlines of the challenge carefully, but have fun with this! And please.... make sure to tell us what materials you used to build your filter in the caption.
JPG's Editorial Intern, Darlene Bouchard, decided to post a before-and-after shot with her filter, which she made by carefully smearing shampoo on an old UV filter.
Others have made wonderful "how-to" guides that describe how they created their filter. If you'd like to share your Create-A-Filter adventure, submit it as a story. We'd love to hear what you got out of the challenge!
Here are some great examples already submitted:
Untitled (Filter: Vaseline on a Window) by Evan Brogan
Canna Flower Captured Through A Ziploc Food Saver by Michael F. O'Brien
Lisa Left (Filter: Fabrics) by Maja-Yvette Saphir
