blumoon
Well-known
bmattock
Veteran
Looks like someone doctored a standard UV filter for reasons of their own. No clue what it might do. Give it a try.
zuiko85
Veteran
Lomography could do this on $5 filters and sell them for $40 each.
blumoon
Well-known
I think you're right. I just scraped one of the bubbles off with my fingernail.
muser53
MUSER53
This will yield an image with a sharp in focus center and a soft focus periphery.
Reminds me of a crude Zeiss softar filter with an unfiltered center.
Reminds me of a crude Zeiss softar filter with an unfiltered center.
raid
Dad Photographer
Just use it and enjoy making soft focus images with sharp centers.
Sumarongi
Registered Vaudevillain
Looks like nail polish?
lxmike
M2 fan.
looks like an adapter home lab experiment, some sort of soft focus the possible outcome
lxmike
M2 fan.
leicapixie
Well-known
The idea of your filter, is based on the Zeiss Softar for Hasselblad.
The Softar mostly softened skin but not textures..
Try it as is! Portraits in backlight,that can show bokeh.
Enjoy!
The Softar mostly softened skin but not textures..
Try it as is! Portraits in backlight,that can show bokeh.
Enjoy!
ellisson
Well-known
A customized (center area spared) softar filter. Interesting idea - the softar filters usually have have the markings uniformly distributed over the glass.
sepiareverb
genius and moron
drewbarb
picnic like it's 1999
Yep. We used to put vaseline on a UV filter to make a soft-focus filter for portrait photography. One with little dots like this would do a nice job softening, plus the pink hue of the stuff applied would warm up the image just slightly. Worth keeping for when you want to do softened beauty shots but don't feel like messing with Photoshop too much. Especially in the days before digital manipulation, there used to be a lot of very creative DIY in photography.