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Yay or nay?

I realised the other day almost the entire time I've owned my XF 33mm f1.4 it has had a Tide Optics Cinesubtle filter on it. I was about to shoot a friend's wedding with it but stopped to look at some of the portrait shots I've taken recently and I think I'm over this look now.

I got drawn into them with the whole Fujifilm recipe thing and the fact they take off the clinical look of digital. I think they're awesome for night photography or dusk/dawn shots with artificial lighting but for daytime the photos just look a bit weird. Also this is a very subtle 1/8 equivalent effect.

I'm just intrigued to hear what you guys think of them? Does anyone leave them on their lens the entire time like I did?
 
DD_Crash said:
Wouldnt it be easier to do this in post using On1 Effects, Nik Effects or similar?
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That was another question. I wouldn't have thought you could recreate the exact same effect in post without the image looking too artificial. Maybe someone on here has tried it or compared it to using an actual filter.
 
Here's one I took a few months ago on the 33mm. I just don't see how you could recreate this softness in Photoshop from a much sharper photo. I know you can use tricks to make the lights glow but do you know what I mean about the entire image just looking a bit dreamy?

This was straight out the camera JPG with Ema De Luca's 'Italian Summer' recipe.

 
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Yeah so it works well with the light sources for sure but I'm not too keen on the HDR look as it makes it look a bit processed IMO - the railings look a bit too bright but you may disagree it's subjective after all!

Also hard to judge the overall impact due to the compression.
 
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