Filters

I've looked at the set of Holga filters on lomography.com about a billion times but I always sort of think, couldn't I just make my own instead of spending £30 (+£12 UK delivery) similar to what I've seen other people do? I always had it in mind so I looked out for things like sweet wrappers I could substitute for the proper things.

One English lesson almost a year ago, it was one of the last lessons before study leave so our teacher brought in a box of Celebrations or something like that which everyone had one of, and then my friend Izzy helped me make sure they didn't rip or throw away their wrappers and she helped me collect them (isn't that nice?). I tried them out briefly when I first got them but other than that they've just been in the zip pocket of my bag, until about an hour ago.

I've got 3ish weeks until my unit 2 AS photography exam and one aspect of what I'm doing for it is the idea of paradise and that sort of thing, so I'm going to be testing out a lot of cool stuff (like getting some disposable cameras and doing various things to the lens) to make really pretty, colourful photos. I've been messing with gradients in Photoshop but I remembered about these makeshift filters I had earlier, so decided to give them a try, and I got some really nice results (in my opinion) and pretty much exactly what I was hoping for.

I took some with my Nikon D40 and some with my Holga, so here are some of the digital ones: