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====== UPDATE as my 'Club' membership has expired in the uncertainty of the IMA takeover many of the images in the article are not in my most recent 200 and thus will not be visible in the article ====== I've posted a couple of images on ipernity using ND filters made from welder's glass, a cheap way of emulating a Lee Big Stopper filter, and you can go to much higher ND factors too, I've made 900x and a 9600x ND and another which I guess is around 100,000x but I've not found a use for yet. I originally made the filters when I was using a 'point and shoot' and really didn't want to spend as much on an ND as I had on the camera. If you buy the bits off eBay the total cost of a filter is around £3

How to make this orb image and get a smooth join. Here's the original: I used GIMP to make the orb the following way: In GIMP the source image can be any shape and you'll get a circular result, (I think in other packages you'd need to scale the source to a rectangle first). 1) created a test orb using 'Filters>Distorts>Polar Coordinates' to see what happened. 2) the 'horizon' didn't match at the seam so I undid rotated slightly, redid and just repeat…