This pin test was originally posted on CraftFail.
I’m not much of a photographer, guys. If you’ve seen my blog, you already know that. But I did recently-ish invest in my first big-girl camera: a really truly DSLR. I set out to learn all the cool stuff it can do, and so far I mostly just shoot in aperture priority mode and call myself a lazy amateur, but hey, it works.
Know what’s cool though? Now I can try stuff like this.
Image from PetaPixel.com
Yep, all you do is take a sandwich bag, rip a hole in it, and stick it on your camera for a foggy look around the edges of your photos. Sweet.
Sandwich bag? Check.
Sandwich bag with a hole ripped in it? Oh sure, I can do that.
And then the only step left was to take pictures, so I started with pictures of a pin test I’d just finished.
So yep, I see what you did there, sandwich bag. But really, now it just looks like I burned the s’mores and my kitchen is residually smokey… not out of the realm of possibility, mind you.
I decided to try a different subject…
Yep. Laundry. But at least it’s clean laundry. I do have standards, people.
So the only subject I had left to use was myself, but I couldn’t figure out how to use the timer function on my camera, so, uh, yeah, it’s gonna be unprofessional, make-up-less selfies. Enjoy my chin zit.
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Your expression in the last photo really sells it.
Work the camera, daah-ling.
You need to open your aperture so that the edges of the bag are blurred out. That will get you the out of focus vignetting that you want. 🙂
I don’t know that I’d feel comfortable going around telling people to open their aperture! Do you know her well enough to say things like that to her?
The way you ended this one is sheer perfection. As is your expression.
It looks like those pictures that people take at supposedly haunted houses and get all giddy over because OMG SPIRIT WORLD.
omg…you crack me up!
Pinterest lies. How many times have I said this. You’ll probably block me. My selfies are equally stylish (like yours, not hers since taking a selfie with a DSLR is impossible – it makes all sorts of clicks and bangs, am I right?)
I have a fun DSLR too that I have no idea how to use. So I feel your pain. I shall skip the sandwich baggie filter trick. Thank you for saving me time.
I tried the sandwich bag filter thing as well, it didn’t even make it onto my blog. I guess I oped too big of a hole and really it just looked like a normal photo and that I was trying to keep rain off my camera.