Center Spot Filter is a filter that helps you create an extraordinary effect on your photos, namely Center Spot Filter leaves the central area of the image untouched, and the edges of the frame make it more soft and blurry. The filter is very useful for creating portraits.
Homemade Center Spot Filter
I tried to make such a filter myself, for this I used a regular film. Since I should have shoot outdoors in winter, I decided to make not just a Center Spot filter, but Cold Center Spot Filter, but because he took the blue film, which gives cold shade on photos. The filter is called 'Center Spot' because 'Central PointThe lens usually does not distort the image that the lens gives.
Normal left protective filter 67mm diameter, on the right is a circle cut out of film.
I just cut out a circle in the center of the film, and then cut out the very inside with the circle, I made the radius of the outer circle equal to the diameter of the lens filter on which I planned to use this Center Spot filter.
Homemade Center Spot Filter on Tamron 17-55 F2.8 Lens
Then I put the cut piece of film on the lens of the lens and fixed the film with protective filter as shown in the photo above.
Features of such a device:
- The center of the photo remains sharp as it would be without using the Center Spot filter. The narrower the diameter of the transparent hole of the Center Spot filter, the larger the blur area will be in the photo. I used the Center Spot filter's clear hole diameter about 3 times smaller than the lens filter diameter.
- The softest effect is only available when photographing on open apertures. The stronger the aperture is closed, the more noticeable transition from film to an empty central area.
- White balance when working with mine Cold center spot the filter constantly made the central region of the image warmer, thus creating a good contrast of the central and lateral parts of the frame.
- Normal focusing is only available with center focus points.
- The cost of such a filter is minimal, but the effect is very strong.
- Instead of a film, you can use gauze, transparent fabric, even a regular plastic bag. If not protective filter to fix the spot filter, you can stick it with tape. Previously, this effect was made even easier - by smearing the edge of the front lens of the objective with ordinary Vaseline.
Sample photos:
All shot with a lens Tamron AF 17-50mm f / 2.8 XR Di II LD Aspherical (IF) for Nikon using the Spot Filter shown in the photo in this article. For the test I used a camera Nikon D80:
Personal experience
Spot filter is a very interesting toy, with its help you can get very unusual photographs that give off vintage and mysteriousness. With the help of such a Spot filter, you can get something mysterious from the simplest lens, and the picture itself becomes like a picture from extraordinary lenses, for example, such as Helios-40-2... I also recommend my entry about 'homemade bokeh'.
Conclusions:
With the homemade Spot filter, you can easily get a soft picture in the photo, the filter can be used for portraits or any other artistic intent.
↓↓↓ Like the idea :) ↓↓↓ Thank you for your attention. Arkady Shapoval.
All ingenious is simple ... Great !!!
Thank you :)
Well, like a toy - it will go.
And I achieved a similar effect by breathing with my mouth on the front lens and then very carefully wiping the central part (especially effective in the cold))). The advantage of this method is that you can draw different forms of the central part without spending a lot of time.
Quite an interesting way, in the summer it will be difficult to implement.
In the summer, for these matters, I carry a piece of bacon with me.
I think cellophane for a lens is more useful than spray of saliva)
I read it, quickly cut it out of the yellow bag, put it on 35 / 1,8, wrapped the filter, Nikon D90. I wanted to put a link to the photo here, but is it possible?
Of course you can, even need :)
It’s even longer, I need to try it. Arkadiy shch hotiv tell you that on the site there are problems with the comments (decals stinks just don’t go). It’s still not a secret, de Vie got into a photographer? (:
He studied himself, attended MK.
Zrozumіlo, dyakoy (:
https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/v6JarISoguHpHs0BYstJHdMTjNZETYmyPJy0liipFm0?feat=directlink
The result, tak skazat :)
Not bad.
Is it necessary to cover the edges of the front lens of the objective with ordinary petroleum jelly…. Maybe it is better to smear the protective filter?
Of course, you can take a protective filter, I gave the simplest option when there is no filter.
An interesting effect, I remember how everyone laughed when they saw what you were filming.
That everyone is used to, that I am constantly experimenting.
Great!!! Thanks for the wonderful advice, Arkady, I’ll definitely try it !!!
Amazing pictures !!! And I thought you got rid of Tamron 17-55 F2.8 =)))
Situation! I went to the store to take Nikon d7000, as I told you, and then ... the manager advises taking a full frame of Nikon d600! I really thought about it, started reading reviews on the internet and realized that a successful device and the price of 17 UAH for a full-frame matrix is justified.
I also learned that there is a Canon 5d full frame bu for 8000 UAH! You did not come across him by accident? They also say a great machine, but a vacuum cleaner !!!
Yes, a full frame is a big jerk after a cropped camera.
1. Have you had Nikon d600?
2. What can you say about the Canon 5d? It is worth taking BU
The Nikon D600 has not yet been used, just like the Canon 5D.
Alternatively, you can use various translucent materials, fabrics, liquids. Flight of fancy is not limited. Something you can do with Photoshop.
You, Arkady, are strange in the best sense of the person, while everyone is resting, your head and your hands continue the creative search for what others considered open for a long time, and you find ... Praise and honor!
The best rest is the work you enjoy.
Interesting idea. But I want a smoother transition. Probably here you need to select various materials to get a specific idea. I’ll try sometime.
If you use a faster lens, rather than 2.8, like my Tamron, the transition will be smoother.
I think scho 2 would be kind.
The smoothest transition is achieved in Photoshop with a black-and-white gradient fill mask, and there you already have the effect you want, even cold bluer, even warm sharpe)
And the film is good! Thank you! For brain training it’s the most =)
Or, if you apply a "radial blur" filter to your photo. There, all the parameters can be adjusted: the defocus zone, the degree of focus, and the center point ..
in the photo with colored bokeh in my opinion you can see the structure of the film ...
Arkady, thanks for the master class. I study in a photo school, I will try when doing tasks.
Photoshop is good, but joyful is better.
PS ... visited MK-what's this?
PS I'm sorry, I dare to ask why I am “happy”. Thank you.
MK - Master Classes, VS - Work Shop
Joy of life - joy of life
Here's more food on a similar topic: http://www.photodome.net/?p=1193 и http://www.photodome.net/?p=87 , it is always interesting to do something yourself and get original shots without resorting to the "services" of graphic editors. Thanks for the tips and interesting articles.
Here's more food on a similar topic: http://www.photodome.net/?p=1193 Thanks for the helpful articles, always interesting.
I have been working in Photoshop for 7 years. Recently I took a SLR for myself, and discovered this amazing blog. Now I can’t look at Photoshop)
Only a natural product pleases the eye)
Thanks, very interesting! I have already tried it, I liked the result. For a smoother transition from sharpness to blur, I used two circles with different hole diameters (filter material - files for papers)
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+1 to Anonymous. Capsule writing is considered bad form on the Internet. If the model of the camera or lens is not so important, then sho you changed them so much?
Arkady, the more I read your "courses", the more I want to do photography. Thanks for your WORK!
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Arkady, thanks for the advice with the film ... ..filmed. the beauty…!!!
Can I take a photo?
Of course you can.
Here's what I did, an amateur photographer I'm quite young in terms of experience - 2 years, Canon 600d camera 18-135mm
well done.
Thank you