{"id":10752,"date":"2026-04-30T17:51:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T17:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=10752"},"modified":"2026-04-30T17:51:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T17:51:25","slug":"kaleidoscope-projections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=10752","title":{"rendered":"Kaleidoscope projections"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I have been taking photos through a kaleidoscope but wanted to show them in a different manner. I decided on using ball-like projections, some of which looked quite interesting. What do you think?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am showing these using a comparison slider so you can see the difference between the ‘standard’ look and the ‘ball projection’ – drag the slider to reveal the ‘standard look. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This first image was taken using a vintage 50mm enlarger lens to see into the Kaleidoscope:

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Kaleidoscope image-1 standard look<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Kaleidoscope image-1 ‘Ball projection’<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

<\/div> These next 2 pairs were taken using a vintage 24mm Pentax 110 system lens which is tiny (see the setup photos at the end):<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kaleidoscope image-2 standard look<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Kaleidoscope image-2 ‘Ball projection’<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Kaleidoscope image-3 standard look<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Kaleidoscope image-3 ‘Ball projection’<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

<\/div> These next two pairs were taken with a mobile phone:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kaleidoscope image-4 standard look<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Kaleidoscope image-4 ‘Ball projection’<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

<\/div> The \u2018ball projection’ for this one also has the hues \u2018shifted’:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kaleidoscope image-5 standard look<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Kaleidoscope image-5 ‘Ball projection’ with colour shift<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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The following 2 photos show the setup for taking the middle 2 image pairs using the vintage lenses from the Pentax 110 system (110 Instamatic cartridges). As you can see, these are taken very close up – a close-up filter on the front of the lens helped a lot:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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View of the camera with the tiny lens peering into the kaleidoscope<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n
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View from behind the camera showing the setup<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

This ‘ball projection’ has, I feel, made the images more interesting – I shall try other methods…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have been taking photos through a kaleidoscope but wanted to show them in a different manner. I decided on using ball-like projections, some of which looked quite interesting. What do you think? I am showing these using a comparison slider so you can see the difference between the ‘standard’ look and the ‘ball projection’ … Continue reading “Kaleidoscope projections”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[103,19,141,154,100,3,131,153],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-before-after","category-close-up","category-comparison-slider","category-effects","category-photo-effects","category-photography","category-tests-and-trials","category-vintage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10752"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10791,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10752\/revisions\/10791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}