"Using close up lens on a wide angle lens"?

[Roberto Lequeux]

I came across a very interesting photo. The guy that posted says: "this is the result of using a closeup lens on my wide angle lens. I think I like the effect, it is interesting at least."

What does he mean exactly?


http://www.flickr.com/photos/bpc009/3247942267/sizes/l/

 

[Steve G]

Probably a macro lens filter attachment screwed on the front of the wide lens.

 

[Ryan S]

Love it.

 

[Reinhold R.]

Is this technique similar to what Roger Deakins used in The Assassination of Jesse James? I've always been wondering how he achieved the "blurred-vignette" look of some of the shots and the Wikipedia article didn't really help in understanding how he did it.

Love the effect btw.

 

[Nils J. Nesse]

Probably a macro lens filter attachment screwed on the front of the wide lens.

Like the Canon 250D http://shop.usa.canon.com/webapp/wc...0051&storeId=10051&productId=172384&langId=-1

Or, in the cinema world, Arri Master Diopters http://www.arri.de/camera/lenses/35_format_lenses/master_diopters.html

 

[Nils J. Nesse]

Is this technique similar to what Roger Deakins used in The Assassination of Jesse James?

Mr. Deakins gives the answer, on his own forum: http://www.deakinsonline.com/forum2/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=331

 

[Steve G]

Not sure. I know that "Robbie Ryan" great uk dop who has just shot "Fish Tank" (Dir: Andrea Arnold) a great new british film, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gg1yMOdjyp0
uses these quite a lot...
http://www.arri.de/camera/lenses/35_format_lenses/master_diopters.html

Nice softening affect as well as the drop off in depth of field.

 

[Michael Hastings]

Roberto: I'm pretty sure your example is just using a standard closeup diopter "filter". These inexpensive diopters actually created a curved/speherical virtual image (so if you focused on the center of a flat grid chart only the center would be in focus) so besides the normal very shallow DOF you get from a closeup shot you add in that even all of the other objects on the same plane as the snowman are out of focus, in other words shallow DOF not only in front and back but on the sides too. The wide angle just makes it a little more dramatic.

Those diopters are very cheap 10 - 20 dollars for the SLR lens sizes, but an achromatic diopter that is corrected to get a flat field will be $200-500.

 

[David Wyatt]

Not sure. I know that "Robbie Ryan" great uk dop who has just shot "Fish Tank" (Dir: Andrea Arnold) a great new british film, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gg1yMOdjyp0
uses these quite a lot...
http://www.arri.de/camera/lenses/35_format_lenses/master_diopters.html

Nice softening affect as well as the drop off in depth of field.

Robbie Ryan is indeed "the man" - I wonder how much of this effect you could achieve simply with close focus lenses like the Primo close focus ranges (haven't used them myself but I know they're much in demand)?