New Camera Experiments – Creative Filters
/I got a new camera for Christmas – a Canon PowerShot SX70 HS. It’s a slight upgrade from a previous camera but I am taking time to browse through the manual to try a few things. The Creative Filters Mode is the topic of today’s post. The mode provides a series of image effects that are can be easily selected. My experiment was to try the different ‘filters’ with the view from my office window.
Filter 1: black and white, rough and gritty
Filter 2: soft focus, gentle ambience
Filter 3: distorting fish-eye lens
Filter 4: art bold, like oil painting
Filter 5: watercolor painting
Filter 6: miniature effect, blurring of image outside a selected area
Filter 7: toy camera with vignetting and different color balance
I took a second series with the bouquet of flowers…using the art bold
And then the watercolor painting filters.
These are fun to play with but I’m not sure how often I will use you them in the field. At least I am more aware they are a feature of the camera after experimenting with them. I might try them in a garden or forest…but make some notes for myself so I remember what I used; they skew reality….and I am usually trying to capture what I am seeing rather than going for a special effect image.
