I am looking for a subtle soft focus filter for my GL2. I am shooting a group of models and wanted to clean up the skin tone and texture, but I don't what the effect to be obvious.

Any suggestions or experiences?

Thanks,

Mark

Hello to a fellow Austinite...to answer your question...I'd do it in post with a plug-in in your NLE...that way you are not "stuck" with any one effect. If you shoot with a filter, you can't un-do it later.

Our editior has tried that and the results are less than satisfactory, can you suggest a method that has worked for you?

I find very to my taste the use of the soft Cokin filters.
I have 3 degrees.. but most of the times I use the lightest one.. 820.
If you don´t like Cokin, then you could try some other better (and more expensive) brand..

But I´ve found that the effect the filter gives to the shot cannot be reproduced (by me) well in post.
At least not with a lot of tweaking and LONG rendering times.

You could also try reducing the Sharpness con the GL2 setup.

Mark

I use Vegas 4.0 and have had excellent results with the "glow" filter at ;

http://www.zenote.com

It can be used very effectively to emulate the Tiffen Pro Mist filters.

Hope this helps.