Black pro mist?

[omar robles]

So a camera man I know shot this great little test and claimed he didn’t do anything special in the grade. Seeing this pic do you think he used any special filtration on camera like a Tiffany black promist to get this very film like look?

 

[Solomon Nero]

Its a good filter, it slightly softens, but the big one is it adds halation to the image in the highlights. That specific image does not have any over-exposed or bright sources in the frame, so its very hard to tell.
Notice the glow around the lights in this shot.

 

[omar robles]

So any ideas ? Possibly a different filter?

 

[Aaron Lochert]

Could you share a larger version?

To me it just looks like nice, soft, low-key lighting.

 

[Marc Wielage]

Tiffen GlimmerGlass yields a different result than a black ProMist, but both are excellent at knocking down the highlights a little bit and flattering actors' faces. We can get close to this effect in post, but it's not quite the same as actually shooting it on the day. I would experiment and see how close you can get to the effect you want with post plug-ins like Resolve Glow or the soft effects in Sapphire or BorisFX. The advantage of doing it in post is that you can precisely choose what part of the frame is affected; the advantage of doing it in camera is that it's done and baked in forever, and nobody can change it.

 

[David Mullen ASC]

I don’t see any filtration in that shot...