Tipster: Multiple Exposures and Filter Gels – a Creative Way to Color Your Photos

For today's tipster, we are getting inspired by the master of the past. While we celebrate the launch of the new Lomo’Instant Automat & Lenses Klimt Gold Leaf we get all artsy by experimenting with color filters.

It is always fun to experiment and use colors purposefully in our photos. When we mix primary colors and let them melt between each other, we can see how they interact and create unique hues or cancel each other out.

How To:

This is a fairly simple DIY. First find some plastic color gels – they are available in craft shops, school supply stores or online. Make a ring to fit in front of the lens. You can use any recycled piece of plastic. It needs to be malleable enough to be bent and glued or taped in place, but strong enough to slide over the lens and support itself.

The ring and the filter can then be glued together. This is a convenient way to have a filter that fits over the lens, allowing you to shoot without holding the filter in place. It is much easier to take a photo without worrying about the position of your filter.

Make sure to use filters of the same type. If one of the two filters is made of a different material, they will block different amounts of light and consequentially, can overpower the color cast in the image.

Remember that the light gets filtered through the gels so you must account for the loss of light each filter blocks. Try to adjust your exposure by placing your subject in a bright area or compensating with the + button from the LIAG. Red and green filters will cut more light, so consider this especially when shooting these two colors together.

You will have to take a multiple exposure to get both colors in one picture. Shooting only one time will only color cast the frame. The best way to remember how to get an effective double exposure result is to keep in mind that white will cancel information while dark areas retain information.

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