Meadow Flower taken by Homemade Lens
This flower meadow was suddenly created in the past 2 weeks.
It was a green patch between the buildings of the council housing estate.
Two weeks ago, somebody made a bald patch on the grass, — then after few
rains, it became a flower meadow. = Packaged Instant Meadow !
From this meadow, my regular diet of fuzzy photo was made — but this time,
I used a Home made lens which is a Retro-focus type, 2 element lens.
Sound a bit ostentatious though, in short, as the main convex lens had a little
short focal length, I put another concave lens to extend its back-focus, hence
it became a Retro-focus type. —– (Main convex lens came from a toy and the
Front concave lens was my broken short-eye-sighted glass.)
This photo was a comparison. = taken by the same
Wide-angle Double-density Pinhole lens, I’ve been using.
Note : Regardless the distance, Pinhole never posses a core of sharp image.
And rather blueish color cast, because not much glass lens there to block
the UV. —– (It’s a Pinhole ! )
For this Double-element lens, I improvised an “inter-changeable F-aperture” to
reduce a halation by stopping down. (Sound heavy “F-aperture” though, it was
just a hole on a black tape to stick on the back of the lens. 🙂 )
——– (Photo above : The clear samples of Iris (F-aperture) Effect =
——– Left = Fully open / 10 mm. Center Photo = 6 mm. Right Photo = 3 mm.
Despite the utter humble origin, amazingly this lens has certain image quality.
And those pink flower having rain drops on it —– just able to see !
So, the image was Soft and Fuzzy, because of too much Coma- aberration
still, they are retaining certain sharp image in the center. 😀
This is a part enlargement of the photo above —– Not too bad. I like it.
(Can you see the water droplets on the petals ! )
And able to give enough fun !
I have no idea, what those flowers called.
Still, I like this glowing color ! — not the Sun, but like a kindling fire in the ash.
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PS : May be much of your annoyance, this is it ! = THE home made Lens.
Photo Right shows “F-aperture” ! = Hole in a Black sticky tape. 😀
= To clack a nut of creativity, it doesn’t need to be ostentatiously heavy
Lens, even though the Camera happen to be expensive.
= Typical case was, just smear the Lens with sliver to soften the image.
Heavy pretense blocks the flow of the idea. = Anything can be done.
Matter is Just Do and discover a FUN.
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Yes, glowing color! Love your technique.
Thank you Elena. I met a guy organized this “Instant Meadow”.
He told me that he proposed an “Improve the Environment” project and
received £5000 grant. —– £5000 for this 10 sq m ?
(I found a sachet of “Meadow flower seeds” in the garden center = it was £2 for a pack.)
You are endlessly creative, Yoshizen. I too like the sharp and soft contrasts. What gorgeous flowers!
Thank you Karen. I do try though, to create subtle
sensuous image out of ordinary grass, bush, without
any gorgeous color = your skill is still fur away ahead.
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