Black Mist Filters for Landscape Photography? Kentfaith K&F Magnetic 1/4 Black-Mist Filter Review

[@thomaschipman]

black mist filters work best with scenes that have a fair amount of specular highlights. the bloom adds a nice filmic vibe that's difficult to add in post. if you're not shooting scenes with specular highlights, you won't really see much effect.

[@JasonFriendPhotography]

Makes sense as I know a lot of people swear by them but I wasn’t seeing a drastic effect when I was using them for landscapes. I may try them out again in the city to see how they react then

[@karlratcliff1205]

I agree, also useful in astro for making the brighter stars glow

[@JasonFriendPhotography]

Thats really interesting… I think I shall definitely persevere with it (its looks like I may have just been testing it in the wrong scenarios)

[@gerrimartin]

Green scenery like grass and trees in daylight are the worst in photography

[@peterreber7671]

It doesn't make sense to me, spend a lot of money to get the sharpest lens and then spend more money to essentially degrade the image.

[@JasonFriendPhotography]

That’s a valid point and I agree based on my experience in this video. However some other viewers have commented that in certain situations the filter can produce results which are hard to replicate by post processing alone. I need to do more tests but I fully get what you are saying…

[@gerrimartin]

no the black mist reduce contrast as today digital use cmos not like the analog in the past

[@paktravel2990]

Use some good mic😮

[@JasonFriendPhotography]

Thank you for the feedback. The mics fine though - problem was probably user error