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Softener Filter

  • 10-07-2008 8:47am
    #1
    OVP
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35 ✭


    I was wondering if anybody uses a softener filter here...
    Something like Hoya Softener B or Tiffen Warm Soft FX#2....
    Which is the best one to buy? and the main question, if there is a real need in this kind of filter or Photoshop rules? :)


Comments

  • #2
    SemperFidelis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 266 ✭✭SemperFidelis


    Just slap a handfull of vaseline on the front of the lens.:)


  • #3
    Saggitarius
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 167 ✭✭Saggitarius


    That was great idea:D:D:D:D

    I think this kind of filters using on the film cameras at the moment on digit none. The PS CS3 have this filters. The UV, polar fliters aren't dispensable.

    If I haven't right please light me up why.


  • #4
    OVP
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35 ✭OVP


    SemperFidelis wrote: »
    Just slap a handfull of vaseline on the front of the lens.:)
    Thanks for the idea :D
    It has given me other ideas... something like rasberry jam... it would work as a soft pink filter :)

    Saggitarius, is UV filter so necessary?


  • #5
    Saggitarius
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 167 ✭✭Saggitarius


    The UV filter as filter not absolutelly but much cheaper then a new lens:D. -this is a front lens protector-


  • #6
    CabanSail
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 9,047 CMod ✭✭✭✭CabanSail


    If I were doing it I would shoot normally & then apply the effects in PS as you can then decide how much you want.

    If you do want to do it in the camera then vaseline is a old trick to make a diffuser. I would not put the vaseline directly on my lens though but rather on a UV filter. If there is a bit of grit caught in the vaseline you can scratch the front element when removing it. UV Filter is a lot cheaper to replace.


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  • #7
    OVP
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35 ✭OVP


    to Saggitarius:
    also, it is easier to wash vaseline or jam out from the UV filter than from a lense :D

    CabanSail, we have said the same thing at the same time :)
    If you did not have a UV filter, would you use Polar filter for that?
    If I were doing it I would shoot normally & then apply the effects in PS as you can then decide how much you want.
    It is why i was wondering if I really need softener filter as I did not find good photo examples "without/with a filter" on google to see what a softener does to the photo. I had an idea that Photoshop can be used intead of this filter, but was not sure.

    Thank you for your opinion :)


  • #8
    CabanSail
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 9,047 CMod ✭✭✭✭CabanSail


    I imagine that if diffusion was required it's likely to be for portraiture, so unless there are some reflections you wanted to remove then no call for a polariser. If it were a choice of putting goo onto my lens or my polariser then I would opt for the polariser.


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