Amazon.comThe Canon 72 millimeter Pro Mist filter reduces excessive sharpness and contrast in your photographs. This filter creates a dream-like, "pearlescent" quality to your shots, one of the most popular motion picture effects used today. It is great for portraits and landscapes, giving a soft, luminescent glow to your subjects.When using the Canon 72 millimeter Pro Mist filter, the colors of your photographs will be less stark, and the transitions between foreground and background will have a feathery appearance. Because the softening aspects of the Canon 72 millimeter Pro Mist filter helps to hide skin blemishes or discolorations, the filter is particularly useful in glamour shots or wedding photographs. Landscape portraits take on a surreal appearance, with soft, white glows and smoother, less distinct shadows surrounding well-lit subjects.Product DescriptionThe Pro-Mist is a popular motion picture effect that creates a special "atmosphere" by softening excess sharpness and contrast. It generates a pearlescent halo around highlights. Lighter grades are useful in toning down the excessive sharpness and contrast of contemporary film and lens combinations. This Hollywood/FX filters was originally designed for the TV and Motion Picture industry, but is now available to all photographers and videographers.From the ManufacturerThis filter is exceptional for creating a mood. Outdoors or indoors, in broad scenes or portraits. It is excellent for toning down excessive sharpness and reducing contrast by moderately lightening shadow areas without detracting from the overall image.