Back in March I got a bunch of camera equipment for my birthday. Among
other things, I got a few tinted graduated filters and a lens widener. The next
day, to see how everything worked, I filled my cargo pants with lens extensions
and filters and biked through the Skokie Lagoons. I figured out that the blue tinted
graduated filter made the sky bluer and the lens widener heavily vignetted the frame
and provided more of a perspective.
Camera toys are fun but they really don't make a photo look better. Graduated filters
are a bit messier than photoshop, and lens wideners don't allow a lens to zoom out
significantly without massive vignetting. Additionally, adding layers of glass to a lens
diminishes detail. Still, lens extensions are nifty, and as someone who takes a lot of
pictures it's nice to have a slightly different medium.
Winnetka
Taken in March 2012
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