Creating A Blurred Soft Look With A Smartphone For 0.1 Cent
Apr 3, 2014
Udi Tirosh
Udi Tirosh is an entrepreneur, photography inventor, journalist, educator, and writer based in Israel. With over 25 years of experience in the photo-video industry, Udi has built and sold several photography-related brands. Udi has a double degree in mass media communications and computer science.
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With the web sizzling over a new soft focus lens coming soon to a Smartphone near you, out pal Maciej Pietuszynski thought of trying to recreate a similar analog, soft, blurry effect on a budget.
His solution take about 5 seconds of work and about 0.1 cent of materials – it is a two step process:
Step 1 – make a small roll of clear tape. (for best results use clear Tesa Tape ;)
Step 2 – tape that small roll of tape over the smartphone lens with another piece of tape.
You’re done.
You can read more of Maciej great ideas (including a tilt-shift lens made from a shower head) on his blog and instagram.
Udi Tirosh
Udi Tirosh is an entrepreneur, photography inventor, journalist, educator, and writer based in Israel. With over 25 years of experience in the photo-video industry, Udi has built and sold several photography-related brands. Udi has a double degree in mass media communications and computer science.
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12 responses to “Creating A Blurred Soft Look With A Smartphone For 0.1 Cent”
. Dream shots DIY!
It looks like a phone with a piece of tape over it…
wow, that looks terrible
Step 1 – make a small roll of clear tape.
Step 2 – tape that small roll of tape over the smartphone lens with another piece of tape.
=> Take photos that look like you just taped a small roll of tape over your smartphone lens (with another piece of tape).
this looks a bit cheesy tbh but I guess that’s why it’s a cheap solution.
Delayed April fool’s joke?
oh my..
You can always get this one http://lensbaby.com/Mobile-LM-10
Are you serious?
Is just the fun…that was shot with alpha v1.3 no digital effects… :-D
Never mind the nay sayers, I like the way you think, Maciej. Nice and simple, cheap solution.
My god, what a silly article