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Using filters

Using filters

- Yet another cinematographer's secret to add a more filmic look, is to use specialty filters on the lens. There's an entire arsenal of filters that can enhance the look of your video footage to appear more like those beautiful frames of celluloid. Some of the most common, are quarter and half Black Pro-Mist filters. Black Pro-Mist filters are particularly effective at cutting down and smoothing out those telltale video highlights that you typically get on shiny things on screen, foreheads and noses, lamps or anything else with a bright highlight. These telltale highlight spots are something that are generally more apparent on video, which has a more narrow exposure latitude than film, which can handle highlights better. Softening filters are also another popular in-camera technique used to get a more filmic look, by counteracting some of the harshness of video. Believe it or not, one of the problems with today's crop of super powerful video cameras is that they are actually too good!…

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