Shoot Through a Screen
This technique often produces a picture of intrigue.
Explore what you can place between the lens and the subject
You will need a translucent material, for instance thin netting or plastic held close to the lens will diffuse the image, place it closer to the subject to add a texture instead.
(1) Find your yourself one of the following:
- Patterned glass (could be an old louvre, glass brick, or try the window/glass shops for off cuts Of different patterned or coloured glass.
- Flywire
- Net
- Try screwing up cellophane to get a texture - Through a window on a rainy day
- Tracing paper
- Misty windows
- Anything else you would like to try.
(2) Choose something for an interesting background, bright & cheerful or spooky - but try and express the mood you are trying to achieve.
(3) Try shooting focusing on the background
- Flywire
- Net
- Try screwing up cellophane to get a texture - Through a window on a rainy day
- Tracing paper
- Misty windows
- Anything else you would like to try.
(2) Choose something for an interesting background, bright & cheerful or spooky - but try and express the mood you are trying to achieve.
(3) Try shooting focusing on the background
Some of our clubs efforts for this exercise are below.
All of these images are subject to copyright.
