home made filter

[Slickbmwchick]

i took this photo on a sunny day around 11:00am
took it with an aperture of F8
an iso of 200
with a home made filter out of purspecks

let me know what you think and if you have any suggestions about this image

[windrider86]

My own personal opinion is I would crop it back right at the wooden slat. Too much distraction.
What kind of home made filter and how did you do it?

[takethislife5150]

Yeah, the wood is distracting, and its not straight up and down which makes it even more distracting...

[kencaleno]

Originally Posted by windrider86

My own personal opinion is I would crop it back right at the wooden slat. Too much distraction.
What kind of home made filter and how did you do it?

Better to smear vaseline on a uv filter. Or: In Photoshop:

Create an ellipse around subject, using elliptical Marquee tool
Select> Inverse
Feather radius 250 pixels
Edit> Cut

Ken

[JerBear]

Good for you,

Try different things to see what you can create!

I remember shooting at a arboretum once with all of my fancy equipment, and taking decent shots of the floral gardens. My better half was with me and she whips out her little canon point and shoot camera and starts to stick it under the flowers pointing up to the sun and clicking away. Amazing shots! Next thing you saw was me on my stomach the rest of the day shooting upside down! Best shots of the day!

So, experiment away!!

Good Shooting

JM

[Slickbmwchick]

i took perspecs glass, took a R1 coin, placed it in the center of the perspecs glass and drew a circle around the coin with a wide board marker. i took fine water grit paper and sanded around the outline of the coin, then wiped the outline of the coin away.

once it was complete i stuck it on the end of my lens with prestick.

centered my object and took the shot :-)

[JerBear]

A easy way to make a diffusion filter is to get a piece of clear plastic, maybe off a package or something. Cut a oval in the center of it, then take some clear nail polish and apply to the plastic. Apply from the center out in strokes all the way around like a sunburst.

Now you can make a few of these filters, some with more brush strokes, some less. One way is to wait for the polish to dry a little, then brush to create more diffusion.

Now to fit in front of your lens, we used a lens cap with most of the center cut out, just enough to to hold in the filter you just made (Obviously, the filter needs to be prepared for that size holder. When you are done, to use, just pop in the filter you want and you are on your way to making a photo with the center clear and the edges diffused.

Good Shooting

JM