Camera filters

 I was digging out some old camera filters the other week for a course. My God I 've got a lot of them!  Worse is theres so many crap ones!

 Ok I've got the usual colour correction, and red, yellow etc for black and white, but the rest? why the hell did I buy them all?

 I've got green graduated... GREEN! what was I thinking.  Oh I know.  One day I'll really fancy a green sky... No wait. Maybe I planned to use it for black and white but only affect the sky.  Well that sort of makes sense, except I'm not much of a fan of a green filter for black and white.  I tend to go with red or orange (I have those too in graduated).

 Then theres the really weird ones.  A mirrored surface to create a mirror image of half the scene.. I did try that one once, wasn't impressed.  Then theres the one that makes 6 of everything.  Yeah, thats what I though.  Theres the half magnifing glass to get a real close of of the forground and the background sharp (dont think I even tried that one).

 Theres a keyhole shape, probably popular with peeping toms.  One of those ones for putting the bride and groom in a wine glass, that was all the rage at one time. Loads of different soft focus, couriously a bit of stocking stretched over the lens worked well if you didn't have the filter.... and it explained the pair of stocking in the back of the car to your wife.  Those were the days!

 Hell I've even got a vairable green (why the hell green?) polarizing filter, this you rotate the outer part of the filter to vary the colour.... Guess what, that got bugger all use.  Mind I think I have the red as well that did get used a bit, but again not much considering how much this stuff cost.

 Worse part... well it's all worth sod all now, most of it you can either do in camera or photoshop, without the exposure hassle, a red filter knocked about 4 stops off your exposure.  That was a bitch with 100 iso film.