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flickr.com — Refraction patterns made by light passing through various glass and transparent objects. Analog images captured directly on to 35mm film.This is 'lensless' photography - the object itself becomes the lens.

Who dugg this? Made popular Aug 15, 2008

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  • beefchi, on 08/15/2008, -3/+25IM TRIPPIN' BALLS MAN
  • Ki77erB, on 08/15/2008, -0/+13I believe he removed the lens and pressed the glass object directly against the body of the camera. Its a good idea, I never thought about it. Im going to go try it right now though!
  • serif69, on 08/15/2008, -1/+13The snozberries taste like snozberries.
  • thescimitar, on 08/15/2008, -0/+11You could probably achieve it a bunch of different ways. The easiest way is to not use a camera at all, but create photograms (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photogram) by passing light through glass or prism, etc, directly onto the film or paper surface.

    There's a lot of neat lenless/cameraless work out in the history of photography. Try out Lotte Jacobi or Man Ray.
  • highlymodified, on 08/15/2008, -0/+8That earns my "***** Cool" award for today.

    I'll have to recharge that lazur for another 24 hours.
  • Hodor, on 08/15/2008, -1/+9I'd like to know how the camera was set up to take most of these.
  • terracottapai, on 08/15/2008, -0/+7A thumbnail on this story would have gotten it 3000 diggs.
  • 1807, on 08/15/2008, -1/+8Those are beautiful.
  • thewhits, on 08/15/2008, -0/+6I would love to see a short movie on how he did this
  • zantos420, on 08/15/2008, -0/+6yes, you are freaking out... man.
  • BlockedUser, on 08/15/2008, -0/+4wallpaper city! great collection.
  • supernovasky, on 08/15/2008, -1/+4I've got to look at this site next time I trip.
  • zantos420, on 08/15/2008, -0/+3CANDY BAAARSS
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  • danesis, on 08/15/2008, -0/+3Amazing images of nebulas and exploding stars, oh wait...
  • CrackyJSquirrel, on 08/15/2008, -1/+3Always digg up good desktop fodder..
  • BlockedUser, on 08/15/2008, -1/+3"Refraction patterns made by light passing through various glass and transparent objects.

    Analog images captured directly on to 35mm film.

    This is 'lensless' photography - the object itself
    becomes the lens."
  • urbandistrict, on 08/15/2008, -0/+2duck + duck ≠ goose
  • leejarratt, on 08/15/2008, -1/+3Idiot + Digg = Fail
  • sadisticmind, on 08/15/2008, -0/+21+2 = another number! ooOOoo
  • Yage2006, on 08/16/2008, -0/+2Thanks for your generic comment.
  • leejarratt, on 08/15/2008, -0/+2I SEE THE LIGHT
  • algaeturd, on 08/15/2008, -0/+2Awesome shots. Amazing that you can do this with just glass and light. Pretty incredible, kudos to the photographer.
  • FoxOrian, on 08/15/2008, -0/+2I like that his user name fits the content, as well. "Reciprocity"

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reciprocity_%28photog ...

    Paul Debevec's dual light stage using reciprocity [with a cool video]:
    http://gl.ict.usc.edu/Research/DLS/
  • leejarratt, on 08/15/2008, -1/+3I did.
  • roomforpanic, on 08/15/2008, -0/+2Whoever heard of a snozberry?!?
  • lmf49, on 08/15/2008, -0/+2umm?
  • serif69, on 08/15/2008, -2/+3Me too.
  • kunstashley, on 08/15/2008, -0/+1The thumbs look cooler together than the single shots
  • fxu1989, on 08/15/2008, -0/+1"IM TOTALLY TRIPPIN BALLS"
    -Cartman
  • leejarratt, on 08/15/2008, -0/+1Geometry Wars ON CRACK
  • Fiyerstorm, on 08/15/2008, -2/+3These would make better Vista wallpapers than the stock wallpapers.
  • bigfinger, on 08/15/2008, -0/+1very cool, never thought about using the camera that way.
  • LongBong, on 08/15/2008, -0/+1kinda like wut I see when I close my eyes on an 8th
  • CATSCEO2, on 08/15/2008, -2/+3Who ***** in your cereal?
  • leejarratt, on 08/15/2008, -0/+1Except the Fish wallpaper, I LIKE FISH
  • inactive, on 08/15/2008, -0/+1...All those rainbows... bending light sure is same-sex oriented.
  • terracottapai, on 08/15/2008, -0/+1...and it BURNS!!!!!!
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  • Fiyerstorm, on 08/15/2008, -0/+1Dammit, you're right! D:
  • Whitey07, on 08/16/2008, -0/+1Argh.... wheres my LSD??!?!?
  • VarelseSoul, on 08/15/2008, -2/+3That wasn't milk.
  • earlobe, on 08/16/2008, -0/+1this reminds me of the ending of 2001: A Space Odyssey
  • Namco, on 08/15/2008, -0/+1Geometry Wars ON CRACK & SHROOMZ
  • Hodor, on 08/15/2008, -0/+1thanks for the replies! :D

    I'm going to go try this photogram stuff.
  • Yage2006, on 08/16/2008, -0/+1Too bad they are lowres some of them would have made nice backgrounds. :(
  • snareguy17, on 08/15/2008, -1/+1That just freaked my freak.
  • guitarchitect, on 08/15/2008, -0/+0at first I had no idea what PD was doing... then I watched the video. Holy *****!
  • asiantoast, on 08/15/2008, -0/+0those are really cool. It reminds me of a lot of photos i see on www.brink.com. There's a lot of artist types who post their photos and videos to share online.
  • inactive, on 08/15/2008, -3/+3That's badass... some of them look a lot like fractals or something.
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