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gearspec — Polarized LCD Crystal Bokeh Stock by-nd

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Description Submission for the - Texture Your World Contest 2013 - [link]

Story:
I just got a CPL filter and was very skeptic about its performance.
I was testing and simply playing around with it on my 50mm.
Suddenly I aim it at my LCD screen(matt) and find out that at certain angles
the CPL filter turns the lcd completely black with small white spots
showing up. Later I found out that these spots are LCD Crystals that have
the same polarity as the CPL filter at that specific angle. I took the first image
hand held and introduced a bit of a motion blur and the second image is what
you see through the viewfinder (tripod) and the third one is simply out of focus (tripod).

Who knew you can make Bokeh texture with a CPL and a LCD.

Hardware:

1000D Canon
50mm f1.8
CPL Filter.
Tripod

The seperate images have exif data to them for more details such as shutter, iso etc.
(Pictures of the setup here [link] & [link] )
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Comments: 11

CelticStrm-Stock [2013-04-07 06:42:58 +0000 UTC]

Congratulations! You've been featured here: [link] and [link]

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gearspec In reply to CelticStrm-Stock [2013-04-08 20:04:31 +0000 UTC]

OMG , thank you , thank you.

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Elandria [2013-04-04 14:07:15 +0000 UTC]

Really lovely work!! You are a special mention for the Photographic category for the Texture Your World contest! [link]

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gearspec In reply to Elandria [2013-04-05 17:53:53 +0000 UTC]

Thank you for the points and the Special Mention, I am humbled.

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Elandria In reply to gearspec [2013-04-07 00:11:52 +0000 UTC]

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gearspec In reply to Elandria [2013-04-08 20:08:56 +0000 UTC]

by the way, I am never a stock photography kind of person, but I have to admit, I learned a lot from this competition. Truly appreciate the opportunity, hope some more exciting competitions happen in future.

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Elandria In reply to gearspec [2013-04-11 09:05:03 +0000 UTC]

Glad to hear it, we have a new contest in the making, which is co hosted by artisan crafts so plenty of scope

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SteveWackenKing [2013-03-02 08:03:38 +0000 UTC]

wow this is so creative guess you you just invented a way to make Bokeh

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gearspec In reply to SteveWackenKing [2013-03-04 16:03:17 +0000 UTC]

Thanks man, I really like that.
I am pretty sure others have used CPL out in the field,
but aiming at the lcd and getting crystals to make bokeh
was even crazy for me.

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SteveWackenKing In reply to gearspec [2013-03-04 16:26:16 +0000 UTC]

yeah exactly that was Really Creative and it take a real Devious mind

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gearspec In reply to SteveWackenKing [2013-03-04 18:12:35 +0000 UTC]

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