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Josh Birch

Josh Birch

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I'm keen to experiment with different filter combinations this year and thought it would be a good idea to start a thread where people can share examples of their combinations. I've only really used single filters so I'm intrigued to see what people have been experimenting with :D
 
Interested to hear more combinations that people are shooting with, I almost never double up.

I've tried the rear dior net and front filtration combo but have always pulled the front filtration.
 
Few years ago, we experimented with combining glimmer glass and black pro mists. I think we landed on using 1/4 GG and 1/8 BPM for the studio BTS portion of these spots (00:02 - 00:18 seconds).

https://vimeo.com/251535380

All pretty subtle, even combined, but we enjoyed the look.
 
My first decade+ in the industry was working around, with, and on other DP's footage in the feature world. Lots of interesting things there.

On the TV/Episodic side of things there was a common triple stack that many used, still used to this day.

- Diffusion
- CPL
- ND and yes often a 0.3 when nearly nothing was needed.

Back to features, man it was much more varied as every film usually provided a landscape to do something new. Everything from bare lens to filter stacks with rubber band nets behind the lens. It wasn't uncommon to even build custom filters in the 2000s for special diffusion effects or weird highlight twinkles.

I'd say these days it's more common in film to shoot clean, but there's still a lot of DPs doing some pretty wild filtration either for a whole film or scenes that call for it.
 
Jordan Beard said:
Fun set up with a Schneider Clear Streak 2mm filter combined with a 1/4 Black Pro Mist
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This would be a really cool special effects combo for ghosts/flashbacks/etc.

Glad you posted it, though, because I was about to try Clear Streak + Pearlescent for a situation where this was *not* my desired look hahaha.
 
Jordan Beard said:
Fun set up with a Schneider Clear Streak 2mm filter combined with a 1/4 Black Pro Mist
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Very 1980s!

Cameron Currier said:
Few years ago, we experimented with combining glimmer glass and black pro mists. I think we landed on using 1/4 GG and 1/8 BPM for the studio BTS portion of these spots (00:02 - 00:18 seconds).

https://vimeo.com/251535380

All pretty subtle, even combined, but we enjoyed the look.
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Lovely footage but you're right about the subtlety. ;-) I can't really tell if any filters were used at all.

Josh Birch said:
This was a nice combo from a commercial I worked on as movi op last year.

Pearlescents / low con / classic soft

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Excellent work. That's really well shot (and edited).
 
Josh Birch said:
This was a nice combo from a commercial I worked on as movi op last year.

Pearlescents / low con / classic soft

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what glass was used on this. The filters def imparted their character but I am curious about lens as well. Beautifully done.
 
On "The Love Witch" (35mm film / Zeiss Super Speeds) I mostly used a combination of a black veil material I stretched on a frame plus a 1/8 Classic Soft.

lovewitch8.jpg


lovewitch11.jpg


lovewitch20.jpg
 
David ...I thought the combo of the Art direction and your photograpahic aproach on 'the Love Witch' was startlingly evocative! .. It is very rare one can't date exactly the creation date of any motion content but watching TLW was a strangely timeless peverse semi proustian experience ;-)
 
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