Tipster of the Week: Colour Gels Are Awesome!
written by scapegoat
on October 25th, 2009
, 13 comments
(10 votes)
Diana Filters! by bees
Use the gels that come with the Diana F+ Flash as film filters for your Diana camera! It’s rad!
The little gels that come with the Diana flash fit so perfectly across the shutter of the Diana F+ camera it’s almost like they’re meant to go there! I’m not really sure what made me think this would work, but it did, and really well. I thought I would need to compensate for the light blocked by the filters by having a bit longer exposure, but as it turns out that’s completely unnecessary.
Here are the steps:
1.Get your gels and your Diana F+.
2. Take off the lens.
3. Put the filter over the shutter.
4. Close the lens.
5. Take lots of cool pictures!
I tried the 8 lightest gels taking 2 shots with each gel, each on cloud mode. The first shot I did with regular shutter firing, “N” mode, and the second I did on “B” and held for about 1 second. It was a pretty sunny day and there was plenty of light for most of the gels to work on “N” mode with no problem. The “B” mode made for dreamier photos, but also blurrier, since my arm isn’t a tripod.
I was really pleased that the gel filters didn’t effect the sharpness of the image and I like the halo effect that turned up on some of the photos. Basically these gels are awesome!
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