TTV What....

So, I've always read about this concept that's called TTV (Thru the Viewfinder) photography. It's where you take an old camera with a large enough viewfinder (Kodak Duraflex or the Brownie I have), construct a light shield out of a cereal box and point your DSLR down the tube to take a pic of what's actually showing in the viewfinder of the older camera.

It's actually a pretty slick concept that yields neat square vintagey type pics of ordinary things. Most folks take the images into Photoshop (or in my case Lightroom) and crop them down then apply fun presets/filters/effects to them. In the few I have here, I didn't actually do much. Just kind of punched the color and cropped them.

I did download a few presets to try but most of them needed some tweeking and I'm actually okay with how they came out without the fun presets. Guess I'll have to find other reasons to use those - what to do what to do....!

Now, I'm still getting the hang of this TTV thing and find that focus is a really hard thing. I have my 50mm prime lens with a 12mm extender on which I may or may not need. I definitley need to play around a bit more with it. The extender tube narrows my focal area and is likely why i'm having trouble with the focus. Regardless, I think these first four came out cool.

There are lots of places on line to find info on TTV and even a bunch of Flickr groups that are dedicated soley to the craft. The most comprehensive tutorial i found was this one: http://www.russmorris.com/ttv/index.html. For all 4 of you that read this, tell me what you think!