{"id":16387,"date":"2014-05-14T06:01:44","date_gmt":"2014-05-14T11:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=16387"},"modified":"2019-11-26T06:51:07","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T11:51:07","slug":"experimenting-with-kola-filters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2014\/05\/14\/experimenting-with-kola-filters\/","title":{"rendered":"Experimenting with KOLA Filters"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"KOLAFilters\"<\/p>\n

KOLA\u00a0is\u00a0a set of eight color filters that you hold in your hand and place over the lens or the flash of your camera to color your photos. They can be used on any kind of camera – film, digital, lomo, phone, or DSLR.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Geranium\"<\/p>\n

I mounted my camera on a tripod and shot a photo of my neighbor’s geranium plant, then applied various filters to the lens to get the effects below.<\/p>\n

\"GeraniumFilter\"<\/p>\n

Then I raided the fridge – the dark blue filter was an interesting result.<\/p>\n

\"Peppers\"<\/p>\n

I imagine that you could also stack the filters, and\u00a0tweak the results in Photoshop. These color filters are a relatively inexpensive gadget, they’re compact\u00a0enough to stash in a small camera bag, and a lot of fun to play with surprising effects!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KOLA\u00a0is\u00a0a set of eight color filters that you hold in your hand and place over the lens or the flash of your camera to color your photos. They can be used on any kind of camera – film, digital, lomo, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,2093],"tags":[3155,3154],"class_list":["post-16387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-photography-2","tag-camera-gadgets","tag-kola-color-filters"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-4gj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16808,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2014\/07\/09\/is-there-life-on-mars\/","url_meta":{"origin":16387,"position":0},"title":"Is There Life on Mars?","author":"Tina Garceau","date":"July 9, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"KOLA filters are a set of colored, plastic disks that you manually hold\u00a0in front of your camera lens or flash\u00a0to color your photos. 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