Playing with some new glass filters

[timreeves]

Hi there, New here so please be gentle Recently started doing film photography. No history with any sort of snapping up till now! aaaand now I'm hooked.

So with my 4th roll so far on 35mm I decided to play with the glass filters I had sitting around and bought myself a cokin adapter and a handful of square glass as the local camera shop had them going cheap.

Only photoshop is a little bit of bracketing and horizon levelling all the colours and stuff are as they came out from my film scanner.

All shot on Practika MTL 50 + SMC Takumar 55mm (from what I can remember, oh why can't film come with EXIF!) developed at jessops, scanned at home on epson 4490.

Pink/Yellow split

Tobacco Grad

Tobacco Grad

Pink/Yellow Split

Tobacco Grad

Tobacco Grad

After playing with these and some others that aren't quite as pleasing I've got to say square filters are my fave for split colours/grads as you can adjust where the split happens and the adapter spins freely making composition much easier.

C&C always welcome

 

[Andysnap]

Welcome aboard Tim and congratulations on getting the film bug. Thats a nice set of images to introduce yourself with, I look forward to seeing more.

Cheers

Andy

 

[excalibur2]

Well I have a stack of Cokin, Hunter, Hoya etc....just looking at a couple I've accumulated recently:- a haze and soft, might be for portraiture?

 

[Morinaka]

Cool, that tobacco one is surreal in a good way, shows what you can do with filters, picked up a stack of Cokin P size filters myself recently including a tobacco gnd.

This one of mine was taken with a Cokin Red/Green Polariser. The sky should be blue and the tree golden yellow. If you turn the filter 180 degrees withe sky goes red.

Autumn Yellow + R/G Polariser by Morinaka_2010, on Flickr

I know the site gets a bit of stick on here, but Rocky Cameras usually has a ton of cheap filters, it's where i got all mine, only £5 for that red/green polariser; though he has about 10 fewer P size ones after i bought a stack.

 

[timreeves]

Well I have a stack of Cokin, Hunter, Hoya etc....just looking at a couple I've accumulated recently:- a haze and soft, might be for portraiture?

I believe haze is a strong UV filter, for landscapes and such.
soft is for portraiture I believe, just a pleasant blur for that american portraiture style.

Cool, that tobacco one is surreal in a good way, shows what you can do with filters, picked up a stack of Cokin P size filters myself recently including a tobacco gnd.

This one of mine was taken with a Cokin Red/Green Polariser. The sky should be blue and the tree golden yellow. If you turn the filter 180 degrees withe sky goes red.

Autumn Yellow + R/G Polariser by Morinaka_2010, on Flickr

I know the site gets a bit of stick on here, but Rocky Cameras usually has a ton of cheap filters, it's where i got all mine, only £5 for that red/green polariser; though he has about 10 fewer P size ones after i bought a stack.

The coloured polarizers are DEFINITELY my next buy, I know there's some in my local S/H camera shop for a couple of quid but looked past them the other day as they apeared over gimicky and I wasn't familiar with them - now i've seen what they're meant for I WANT!

Thanks AndySnap, I'm on about a roll a week at the mo and there's been 10 or so in each 36 that I've been happy to show. So expect a new load about once a week!

 

[Morinaka]

I'm not overly sure what they are meant for, but you can have fun with them. I'm going try them with some black and white film as i imagine it should be good for darkening the sky and reflections while leaving the rest mostly untouched.