Filters are an important part of any filmmaker’s toolkit, and now, you can get all the benefits of shooting with diffusion filters in post using Hazy. Soften any bright areas of your image, smooth any uneven skin tones, and add a nice bloom effect to strong light sources using our filter presets.

Get the Vintage Look with Hazy
Hazy adds a subtle glow to your footage that can help reduce the sharpness and contrast that comes with shooting digitally. This glow gives your footage a softer and dreamier look, akin to the days of shooting on film. Choosing a smaller filter size will result in a bloom effect that’s more tightly concentrated around bright light sources. Choosing a larger filter size will result in a softer glow across your whole image.

Soften and Smooth Skintones
Adding Hazy to your footage helps soften and smooth uneven skin tones. It can help reduce the appearance of redness or blemishes on the face by softening the image slightly and adding a brightening glow. Any shiny areas will be reduced as the highlights are diffused into the surrounding areas, reducing overall contrast.

Take your project to the next level by adding Halation to your footage. As a by-product of shooting film, Halation adds a red glow around the bright part of your image, adding to the romantic feeling of celluloid film.

What is Halation?

Halation is a by-product that comes from shooting on film, when bright parts of an image gain a red glow or ‘halo’. Film strips are made of different emulsion layers which capture light within the blue, green, and red channels; alongside an anti-halation backing layer that absorbs excess light. With particularly bright images, light can often refract off the anti-halation backing and back into the red channel, which causes halation to occur. This is most commonly seen on bright light sources, such as lamps, car headlights, and neon signs.
What is Halation by FilmConvert?
Our Halation is the perfect finishing touch to your creative grade, that emphasizes the organic and tactile feeling of film. It adds an innate softness to your image, adding to the romantic feeling akin to celluloid film, and elevates your grade to the next level.