Improvised Camera Lenses
Mar. 5th, 2006 07:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
foxgrrlI think we all know what I did...
Photos are Safe-For-Work, unless you are sexually aroused by giant insects. (Not to name any names here...)
Some of the pictures came out a little bit blurred, because the gaffer's tape holding my lenses together was slipping, and some of the focal planes no longer lined up. Maybe I should start selling photos so that I can afford to buy some professional camera gear.
If you're doing this at home (stalking mosquitoes), it helps to have a red flashlight. White LED flashlights pour out oodles of UV light, which tells a sleeping mosquito that it's morning, and it's time to start flying around again aimlessly. (Yellow light should also be unseen by mosquitos.)
Filters: On Flash: Quarter-Wave Plate, Polarizer. Between lenses: Linear Polarizer.
Location: Sunnyvale, CA 94086
Post-Editing: (36-bit) WB: 4200K Green: 1.32, Black Point: 0.137, Gamma: 0.45 Linear: 0.10. (demoted to 24-bit) UnsharpMasked, Cropped, Shrunk.
Filters: On Flash: Quarter-Wave Plate, Polarizer. Between lenses: Linear Polarizer.
Location: Sunnyvale, CA 94086
Post-Editing: (36-bit) WB: 4270K Green: 1.30, S-shaped-curve, Black Point: 0.133, Gamma: 0.45 Linear: 0.10. (demoted to 24-bit) UnsharpMasked, Cropped.
Color Saturation Comparison:
Notice the hue in the shadow cast by the wings.
©2006 Julia Vixen <juliavixen→gmail.com>
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License.
Remember: The wings of a fully grown male mosquito can in fact fetch anything up to point eight of a penny on the open market.
