One A Day, Day 154: Girds of deception. I began with a non functioning wide angle digital lens, it was locked at widest aperture. Then the addition of a supplemental Polaroid lens over...

Timmers Loc: San Antonio Texas.

Girds of deception.

I began with a non functioning wide angle digital lens, it was locked at widest aperture.

Then the addition of a supplemental Polaroid lens over the front element of the digital lens.

Finally, a diopter between the main wide angle lens and the supplemental lens over that.

Three views, three abstracting impressions, three grids of deception.

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Rab-Eye Loc: Indiana

Back to chaotic clutter. These are not worth posting, IMHO.

jaymatt Loc: Alexandria, Indiana

Rab-Eye wrote:

Back to chaotic clutter. These are not worth posting, IMHO.

GPappy Loc: Finally decided to plop down, Clover, S.C.

That face mask brings back huge bad memories! One was used to hold my head during radiation treatments for throat cancer. It was 3 months of pure hell!

Timmers Loc: San Antonio Texas.

GPappy wrote:

That face mask brings back huge bad memories! One was used to hold my head during radiation treatments for throat cancer. It was 3 months of pure hell!

You nailed the original application, it was my sister Jane and brain tumors. It extended her life 5 years. As an artist I was fascinated by the thing, she asked for it after the treatments so she could give it to me.

This is all experimental work exploring the possibilities of alternative views of figure work. I gained new views into possibilities for image making.

I guess I will just look to creative workers like Vertago to tell me what they see.

vertigo

Sorry, it is going to take a lot more looking before I'm ready for that. But that is a good thing, they have a "capture the interest" success. Science background immediate response says--whoa! I have a drawer of lenses (various stages of disrepair) so mind starts churning.

Timmers Loc: San Antonio Texas.

vertigo wrote:

Sorry, it is going to take a lot more looking before I'm ready for that. But that is a good thing, they have a "capture the interest" success. Science background immediate response says--whoa! I have a drawer of lenses (various stages of disrepair) so mind starts churning.

My mother Thelma would say "Pitch em' out!" So got to do SOMETHING with them! Truth be known, one time I took some turn of the century Zeiss close up lenses (diopters) and mounted them togeather following some cross section representations I found in the Handbook of Photography in the section about lenses. Weird, I used retaining rings for filters to hold it all togeather. I made a 'water house stop' from metal shim. Mounted it to my 4X5 Kardan Bi camera. It worked just like a 90mm Angulon lens at about f=11. Nice crisp sharp images that I did comparative images with a Schneider 90mm Angulon! Amazing!

Sense then, I have spent many an hour at play with alternatives to the standard lenses and gear for view cameras.

vertigo

I once had a salesman's calling card which was the size and thickness of a credit card but was a plastic fresnel lens__wow, look, it magnifies! Mounted it on the front of a bellows on my 35mm and managed to get a more than recognizable image. Certainly not "tack sharp." But fun and interesting none the less. Bellows from a broken Poloroid camera ($1 at a garage sale) glued to a body cap with a large hole drilled through it.

David Kay Loc: Arlington Heights IL

not worthy of posting.

Timmers Loc: San Antonio Texas.

vertigo wrote:

I once had a salesman's calling card which was the size and thickness of a credit card but was a plastic fresnel lens__wow, look, it magnifies! Mounted it on the front of a bellows on my 35mm and managed to get a more than recognizable image. Certainly not "tack sharp." But fun and interesting none the less. Bellows from a broken Poloroid camera ($1 at a garage sale) glued to a body cap with a large hole drilled through it.

The 5 inch glass fresnel lens can be gotten from any electrical contractor supply store, sold as replacements for damaged or broken covers for over head recessed pool lights that are used around the pool in exterior buildings. They are super cheap, especially if you have a contractor's number (Texas it is called a tax number), from fifty cents to a few dollars each.

Timmers Loc: San Antonio Texas.

David Kay wrote:

not worthy of posting.

?, "not worthy of posting" ? What's not worthy of posting? This post of yours makes no sense.

smf85 Loc: Freeport, IL

The composition on the first one is intriguing along with what she was wearing. Visually complex and ‘noisy’ yet balanced. I think the fishnet bodysuit works well; along with the head covering it abstracts the model from a very concrete typical scene. The color balance is interesting, it reminds me of old Ektachrome slide film’s color. The whole thing is disquieting, art can be that way.

papakatz45 Loc: South Florida-West Palm Beach

Rab-Eye wrote:

Back to chaotic clutter. These are not worth posting, IMHO.

Timmers Loc: San Antonio Texas.

smf85 wrote:

The composition on the first one is intriguing along with what she was wearing. Visually complex and ‘noisy’ yet balanced. I think the fishnet bodysuit works well; along with the head covering it abstracts the model from a very concrete typical scene. The color balance is interesting, it reminds me of old Ektachrome slide film’s color. The whole thing is disquieting, art can be that way.

By God! You nailed it! Thanks for the excellent observations, I really liked hearing your view of what you are seeing!

twr25 Loc: New Jersey

Kinda a Michael Meyers take off … the mask detract from the shots. But I ask myself … why? Any point to these? Very Strange.