This was taken looking at the view of the mountains from the front of my house. The circle that has things inverted is the stack of +1, +2, +4, and +10 diopter close-up filters. They're really just big magnifying glasses attached to rings so they can screw onto the lens. Let me enlighten you: if you put a magnifying glass against (touching) the front of YOUR camera's lens, you can get the same* effect I get with close-up filters, that is to say, you too can have super-macro coolness on your camera!
*Effect may be lesser than what is demonstrated on this site, just because no reasonable household magnifier is as thick as all four of these things stacked.
I have always liked the upside-down-ness off magnifiers held at arms length. For some reason I am always perplexed by it, so I am glad this picture captures it so well. I used to have a ball-bearing sized sphere of glass that entertained me for hours on end. That's neediness at it's best right there.
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Day 201: A New Perspective
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2 comments:
That's so cool!!! :D
I understand your fascination with the "upside-down-ness" phenomenon. And your picture certainly did capture this perfectly. I like the contrast of the crispness of that small image against the blurry of the full image.
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