how to get this 80's / foggy effect

<p>Hello everybody,</p>

<p>I was looking at these pictures and noticed they all have this kind of very soft veil / foggy feeling that gives them an 80's mood and makes them really soft. I love it and wanted to give it a try but I'm not sure about how to get there... </p>

<p>How would you get this kind of effect? Filters on the lens (and if so...which ones) ? Post-production (how?) or through lighting (and again...how?)</p>

<p>Let me know if you have a clue and thank you in advanced :)<br>

All pics are from Charlotte Wales <br>

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<p>I can't fully answer your question about these photos but it's possible to achieve this effect with black and white prints in a darkroom by waving a woman stocking in front of the lens while exposing, it gives exactly this effect. I guess it's possible to to do the same for colour analog prints too. I wonder if we could also do it by rubbing a little vaseline on a filter to put on a lens. With photoshop I guess gaussian blur, but I'm not sure. Hope someoe else will answer your question, I'm curious myself. Best regards Chiara.</p>

<p>Chiara, I see that this is your first day on photo.net. Welcome. I must tell you that photo.net rules don't allow you to post photographs which you didn't make. You are allowed to link to other people's photos.</p>

<p>Have a look through the Cokin filter catalogue. Its a very long time since I used Cokin but I seem to recall something like this.</p>

Forget camera filters. This effect is best got using any half

decent image editor these days. The muted, toned-print/cross-processed look can only be got by

playing with film processing or using the

hue/saturation sliders.

 

Soft focus is also a walk in the park using an

image editor. And I suspect that's what was used on those sample pictures.

 

BTW. If my film processor had returned such awful colour back in the 1980s they'd have quickly been out of a job!

 

PS. Applying soft focus in the darkroom spreads the shadows into the highlights and gives a much different look from SF applied in camera or post pro.

<p>If you're using digital rather than a wet darkroom, desaturate, add a little brown toning, and a touch of gaussian blur. Nothing spectacular here.</p>

<p>In film days, these were done any number of ways. As one person mentioned above, you could put a piece of nylon stocking over the camera lens or enlarger lens. A whole range of filters were made that did the same thing. There were soft focus filters, fog filters, etc. You could also simply breath on the front of the lens to fog it up for a few seconds.<br /><br />All of those can still be done today, or you can get the same effects in Photoshop. But keep in mind you could spend an hour fiddling in Photoshop to create an effect you can do in a matter of seconds in the camera.</p>

<p>Thanks a lot everybody for all the useful advices :)<br>

I'll shoot digital so I guess I can try to work on it in post-production or putting something on the lens.<br>

Someone also told me to try with a pantyhose on the lens...I'll give it a try!<br>

Sorry Hector Javkin, I didn't know this rule. Should i delete the images? Is it also forbidden to put a link to the images?<br>

thanxxx</p>

<p>Thanks to Nadine and Bob Bernardo, I still occasionally use a softar filter for the softening effect it gives. </p>

<p>This effect looks exactly like the effect from a Ziess Softar II or III filter combined with back lighting behind the sitter (and offc. a softbox placed strategically) , this is a filter which contains little "bubbles"which act as small lenses.<br /> I have seen many tries to get the same effect , but never seen anyone really succeed in the exact effect when done digitally, even with digital filter emulation packages.<br /> The zeiss softer filters used to be very expensive ( around $90 which was a lot more in the eighties..) ,<br /> I still own the set and will not part with it as long as I keep taking pictures, unless somebody shows me a better way to get this exact effect</p>

<p>About Zeiss softars : http://www.photo.net/medium-format-photography-forum/001g0B</p>

She uses lens filters.

You can create such a filter too & its cheap & easy!

 

Get an old uv or skylight & a tube of crazy glue.

Make a pattern of small dots of superglue & let it harden.

Start with a cross, one line vertical another horizontal. Depending on filter size make each "line of dots" about 1/4" apart.

check for effect which will change as you open/close your iris so its adjustable.

If its not enough add a second diagonal "X" in the same way.

:D