This Might Stay on My Camera Forever! - Pro Black Mist Filter

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[@kentfaithwendyzeng]

Loved the vibes in this video! It’s great to see how you balanced photography with exploring Edinburgh's pubs. Can't wait to see more of your adventures! 🍻📸

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@@kentfaithwendyzeng hey! Thanks so much Wendy, appreciate your support on the video 😁🙌🙌

[@kentfaithwendyzeng]

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[@davidgillespie6604]

Great video, now I have to see if I can borrow/beg a black mist filter to try out for myself! Great Set of images too. I felt the filter does subtly change the tone of your images, even in the non-highlight areas, from your usual style

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@@davidgillespie6604 hahaha keep your eye on the Black Friday pages and score a deal! 🤣 thanks mate! The contrast is overall down toned that’s for sure, but I don’t mind it!

[@alanbudge]

Brilliant location for street photography. Use various K&F products but never got on with the mist filter. Only use polariser and ND for which they do an excellent magnetic kit. Great pics.

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@@alanbudge yes definitely need to explore more there! Thats surprising I find it to be so subtle that it’s hard to go wrong with but It definitely depends on the scene as well. Thanks for watching Alan, appreciate it!

[@derCrummel]

I've had very mixed results with black mist filters. I don't know why, but lightspots must have been reflected by something, since I could trace back every reflection spot to an actual lightsource on the opposite side of the picture. Imagine a line of streetlights and a corresponding line of spots mirrored on the other side of the picture. Kind of strange, but since I've had that effect on several occasions, I guessed it's maybe the lens or the filters rim. (Tiffen in my case...) Anyway... on using your partner as a stand-in: we've just been to South Africa and took a lot of pictures on the coast, and someone standing on the rocks in front of crashing waves as a size reference is really nice to have.

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@@derCrummel have you tried using a step up ring inbetween your filter and your lens? If there’s some distance between the lens it helps to scatter the light better. But other than that, very strange, could definitely just be the brand or the lens like you say. Indeed, always helps to have somebody with you to shove in the frame when you need it haha! I often use myself as well but that’s not viable in the city really 😂

[@iamvain]

Couple of handsome fellas just dillydallying tbf

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@@iamvain 😂😂 couple of young bucks about town

[@kevinredpath3345]

thanks for the tips greg , another nice one ,, i buy a bit gear from k&f and find for the price you can,t go wrong ,, so your brother is in edinburgh now ,, not to close and not to far away eh ,, as nottingham is quite a treck and you seem to get on ok,, tar

[@DISTANTMEDIA]

You're welcome fella, thanks for watching! I agree they strike a very awesome middle ground of good price for good quality! In fact their filters are the best I've used in terms of no vignetting etc! -- Yes moved to do his masters up there, definitely easier to meet up with him now so will probably be shooting there often haha!

[@kevinredpath3345]

@@DISTANTMEDIA next time you go up to meet your brother , if you go up the A1 not far over the border pop into saint abbs an a nice walk to the lighthouse... BUT .. about 3 miles further north there is a little harbour called.... cove .... its a lovely little place to take photos ..

[@DISTANTMEDIA]

@ thanks for the recommendation mate! Have never been to that stretch of the coast before so will definitely try and get there over the coming months!

[@paulm8157]

Super location. Nice product promo, Greg. Item has been covered many times on YT, frequently including night scenes to emphasize mist effect when there’s a light source in frame. Shadow pics work well. Brother between columns might have been better as vertical, IMO. Did you notice any AF responsiveness or accuracy differences when using the filter? Beer and coffee “pubs”, eh? OK😊 Suggestion: number pics to facilitate viewer comment. Cheers!

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@@paulm8157 Cheers Paul! First time catching your comment before I’m asleep 😂 must be a Sunday thing! - hmm nothing different I noticed about the AF on that day but I’ll see how it plays out over the next few weeks! Definitely keen to use it at night that’s for sure, especially with the Christmas lights no doubt making an appearance soon 🫣 - have a good one fella! 🫡

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@@DISTANTMEDIA Yeah, my comments tend to put folks asleep.😂

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@@paulm8157 😂😂 doing the lords work

[@arneheeringa96]

Once I gave my daughter my analogue camera (the Olympus LC of my mother) all set and asked her to take my portrait looking out of the frame. She cut it that I was looking from the short side, but the picture was great. A professional photographer commented that she thought the picture was genius. So sometimes doing not what is commonly thought is the right way to go. Breaking the rules was good in this case.

[@DISTANTMEDIA]

oh yes its definitely a case by case basis! No shoe ever fits all when it comes to what works and doesn't in a photo. if the feet are present or walking motion is present then I think it has a much bigger effect on the final result than in most other cases. And of course sometimes its a stranger so you cant tell them to turn around 🤣 - Awesome story by the way loved hearing that!!

[@DeeploveLama]

The sharpness is too much brother. Turn off the digital sharpness and maybe reduce texture and clarity. It looks too digital

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