https://www.cameraetrusca.com/photo-filters-in-the-digital-age/ Photographic tours, photography learning holidays in Orvieto, Tuscany, Umbria, Rome, inItaly . Mon, 06 May 2013 06:35:52 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.6 https://www.cameraetrusca.com/photo-filters-in-the-digital-age/#comment-48 Mon, 06 May 2013 06:35:52 +0000 http://www.cameraetrusca.com/?p=1027#comment-48 Lots of ways, with slightly different looks softening effects. Easy ones are find a lens that’s single coated/uncoated and shoot into the light source and let veiling flare soften the contrast. A stocking (nude (peach), black, or white) trapped between a filter or expansion ring will soften and reduce contrast. As someone else mentioned petroleum jelly on a cheap UV/clear filter will soften in a different way. Some older lens designs are very soft especially wide open (though usually they have lots of coma some have interesting bokeh), there are soft focus lenses that aren’t expensive anymore as they’re very out of trend these days, and while I suspect it’s quite expensive and don’t think they’re still made, but Zeiss made a softening filter (I want to say it’s the Softar).

]]> https://www.cameraetrusca.com/photo-filters-in-the-digital-age/#comment-31 Thu, 25 Apr 2013 14:43:22 +0000 http://www.cameraetrusca.com/?p=1027#comment-31 While all diffusion filters soften the subject to various degree, background is another story. In fact, the construction of a filter dictates the impact on the background. The following is an image without using a filter. The portion of the background that will be examined carefully is marked with a yellow rectangle.

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