unfrown.com » Photography http://www.unfrown.com Little Things to Make you Smile Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:59:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Kaleidoscope http://www.unfrown.com/2008/11/17/kaleidoscope/ http://www.unfrown.com/2008/11/17/kaleidoscope/#comments Mon, 17 Nov 2008 12:30:15 +0000 Unfrown http://unfrown.wordpress.com/?p=48 It started innocently enough last week as I looked at my two-month-old camera sitting next to my old Corki Weeks kaleidoscope. I decided to see if I could shoot a photo inside the ‘scope, and I began the most ridiculous set of gyrations (the tripod was in the car and I was too lazy to run out to get it) as I balanced the kaleidoscope between my knees while holding the camera against the little hole in the ‘scope, all the while trying to focus and adjust the camera settings!

I managed to fire off a few shots before my muscles gave out, and what resulted was a set of blurry images that were unevenly lit – but I saw that the concept could work.

Yesterday I decided to try again – this time with a tripod holding the camera and a step-stool stacked with phone books holding the kaleidoscope. Success! :-)

I’m a sucker for beautiful things, so I shot of hundreds of frames. Some of them even came out pretty good! These are some of the very best:

Three Kaleidoscope Images

Who knew?! I’m pretty excited by how cool these look. So if you have a kaleidoscope hanging around your house, you may want to try shooting a few photos through it!

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