Filters
Modern digital cameras often have built in filters - which create interesting and amusing effects. You are more likely to find these on compact cameras, although the newest Dslrs offer the possibility of post effects (when you apply a filter after you've taken the picture) In each case the filter replicates an effect that used to only be possible with an expensive specialist lens.
Fisheye
lenses that capture 180 degrees or more of the scene. Very expensive lenses for a few specialist areas of photography - or a simple and amusing filter built into a modern compact.
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Mostly silly fisheye portraits (made by Click students on Canon compacts)
Fisheye Portraits are great fun. Get very close and see what happens. The most bendy and distorted part of the image will be in the middle of the frame and you can choose if you want to give someone a very big nose, a space alien forehead, or a fat tummy. Make sure you work with a partner or group of friends who are happy for you to make silly pictures of them.
Super Vivid colours are boosted and saturated for a surreal effect
Black and White Perfect for a dark autumn afternoon or for seriouse reportage Photography .
Miniature World Once upon a time these pictures were only possible with expensive Tilt - Shift lenses. Now a simple electronic filter creates the effect. Best with shots taken from a distance with a thin band of focus towards the bottom of the frame. Can also work with a vertical band of focus. Everything outside of the rectangle will be blurry, and if you get it right you will create the impression of a model village or miniature world.
