>>4379856
Yes, take it off and rub vaseline on the top of a UV filter instead.

they work better when the lights are more intricate

>>4379856
On my digital cameras I use them instead of UV filters. 1/8 during daylight and 1/4 in low light.

>>4379902
From the geniuses that brought you
>if you get laid without using your camera to lure in women you’re an incel
Comes
>stop going out at night, thats when people hook up to do drugs and have sex, you incel!
lol.

>>4379908
No ya pissed your pants
Daytime = kids going to mcdonalds with mommy
The Night = Just got off work bros lets go hire a fat joint and pass around a hooker

Go out and take pictures, the best lessons are those learnt by experience. This guy used a BPM, for example : >>4378619

>>4379856
buy a 1/8
i bought a whole set a long time ago when photogs were dumping.
>>4379896
this guy has the gist, most of the time 1/4 is too much unless you've got fog and rain then go to town

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>>4380000
Quads. Entirity of becoming a better photog summed up effectively.

The lesson is use the lowest amount of diffusion unless you're going for a very specific look. It gets over the top VERY fast

>>4379856
Black Mist sounds like the name of a gas station cologne or car air freshner

In the Owen Kline movie Funny Pages they use a heavy diffusion filter for these scenes set in a super heated creepy basement and it sells the heat effect so well. Looks like a steamy bathroom from a hot shower haha. There’s a thin line with diffusion between augmenting the image and destroying it. I like 1/8 for the milder effects and enhancing the look of lights, backlight, hair light, softening skin in portraits. Digital mirrorless lenses are so excruciatingly sharp, so mist filters do a good job knocking some of that down. And of course pair well with film looks to sell the analog look.

I like them for personal work and more storytelling, evocative type of stuff. Straight documentary, corporate, event photos, I’m generally trying to make more of a crisp and clean, clinically accurate image so I don’t tend to use them.

Star filters also act kind of like mist filters, obviously with big star specular highlight flaring.

Fun to have and fun to use, but not 100% of the time. That said, I have one on my Ricoh GR 100% of the time.

>>4380130
Here's a demo. https://tiffen.com/products/black-pro-mist-filter

>>4379904
imagine having to do drugs because your life is so miserable lol

>>4379902
No meaningful or important photo has ever been taken in daylight
FACT

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>>4380758
>blocks your path

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>>4380752
>drugs bad
Incel, underage, or just dumb?

>>4379856
Wow it looks exactly like film