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Collection: Blurry_Pics
Camera: Olympus D-490Z
Location: Oakland, California, USA
Date: Aug 3, 2007
Aperture: 4.4
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/80
Date Uploaded: Aug 3, 2007

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 Overhead incandescent light shot through a screened piece of film (see below), which functions to both blur the image and creates the star pattern.

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 08/04/2007 01:54:48 PM
Originally posted by annig:
what I'm wondering is why a person would know or even think, to do this?? :)

interesting use of technology old & new!

I was actually trying to make something which would work as a neutral-density filter. I figured I could focus the camera on the distant subject, and that the dots/lines in the filter would be so OOF that they'd disappear -- there's been a recent discussion of this effect in a thread about shooting animals through cage bars. Obviously, it only partially works.

I work in the printing industry, where I'm used to turning images into halftone screens -- clear film with a pattern of dots which simulates the original photograph.

I have some pieces of film with different types of densities and patterns -- I'll have to see what effects they can produce.
 08/04/2007 05:55:14 AM
what I'm wondering is why a person would know or even think, to do this?? :)

interesting use of technology old & new!
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 08/04/2007 01:05:50 AM
WOW - I thought WTF? Never seen a square lightbulb before. ha ha
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 08/04/2007 12:18:15 AM
An interesting technique/effect. Let's see it put to use on something interesting :-)
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 08/03/2007 11:53:34 PM
Cool little set up. i love the star effect. The blur on this one makes it look dreamy...almost like I'm walking towards "the light" at the end of the tunnel...yikes!
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