How can you enhance your photography with a professional touch The Tiffen 4 x 4" Soft/FX Black Pro-Mist 1/4 Filter is your answer. This high-quality, durable filter is a fusion of the Soft/FX and Black Pro-Mist filters, designed to provide a unique blend of softening and contrast control for your images. The 1/2 density of the Soft/FX element gently diffuses strong light entering the lens, creating a captivating glowing effect. This feature is particularly effective in producing ethereal, dream-like images without sacrificing clarity or detail. The filter achieves this by scattering the light entering the lens with minor aberrations, resulting in a soft glow as opposed to the sharp, well-defined image produced when shooting without a filter.The Black Pro-Mist component of this versatile filter aids in reducing the intensity of the highlights while subtly lowering the overall contrast. This feature is especially beneficial for smoothing out and softening facial wrinkles and other blemishes, making it an ideal choice for fashion and beauty photography.Unlike traditional diffusion or soft focus filters, the Pro-Mist filters maintain minimal loss of detail across the image. The 1/4 density offers more contrast and highlight reduction than the 1/8, but less than the 1/2, while still allowing for a soft, pastel-like quality of light.Crafted using Tiffen's innovative ColorCore technology, this filter is made by laminating the filter substrate between