I've always really liked the look and the effects that anamorphic lenses give you but
and I've always wanted to get one just because I really want to use one
but I know that if I get it I'm not necessarily going to use it as much as I
probably would investing in that kind of a lens, so when I saw Freewell's Blue
Streak and Gold Streak anamorphic effects filters I really wanted to try them out.
So before I actually get on to showing you the Blue Streak and the Gold Streak filters I just
want to talk a bit about Freewell because I really love their lenses. This video isn't sponsored by
Freewell they did send me out the Blue Streak and the Gold Streak filters but that is because
I got in touch with them and asked them if they would send them to me so that I could actually
try them out and see what they were like, so yeah just getting that out of the way,
but I love Freewell filters which is why I got in touch with them in the first place because
when I came across them, well they got in touch with me last summer to try out the filters for
the DJI Pocket 2 which I really, really liked and since then I've pretty much used their filters
for the majority of my videos, so I got the 7-in-1 variable ND system which they released last year,
they sent that out to me and ever since they sent it out to me I've literally been using it on
every lens that I've that I use to film outdoors, so yeah really love Freewell filters but anyway,
I digress. So I've recently been using their mist filters which they also sent to me with
the Blue Streak and the Gold Streak filters again I asked them to send them to me and they did which
is really cool so thanks Freewell, because what I wanted to do was do a comparison between the
1/4 strength, the 1/2 strength and the 1/8 and it was just for my own curiosity because
I've been using the 1/8 a lot and I just wanted to see what the difference was with
the 1/2 and the ¼, the 1/2 and the 1/4 so the 1/2 is definitely really strong and I can see myself
using this on specialist projects so I wouldn't use it all the time even though I really like the
look that it gives, it gives it really nice soft look but not to the point where it's degrading the
quality of the footage it just gives it a really nice soft dreamy effect but I find myself using
the 1/4 and the 1/8 more, and so yeah, seeing the difference between them was really useful.
I've got the 1/4 on at the moment and I also have the Gold Streak filter so you
might be able to see in the background I have a warm light in the background
and yeah… I did switch that light on, so I've got a warm light in the background and
you can see that there's kind of a flare going on there that's because I've got the Gold Streak
filter on my lens as well and basically what the streak filters do is produce a
streak-like effect - an anamorphic streak effect - with light sources that you have in the frame
and that's something that I really just really like that look and so what you want to try
and do is with the Gold Streak filter is use that when you've got a warm light source, so,
much like I've got in the background at the moment and then with the Blue Streak filter
you want to use that with a cooler light source or a white light source and you can use them like in
reverse so the other way around but the effect isn't quite as strong, which i'll show you.
So the other thing I've forgot to mention about the Freewell filters and the reason that I really
like them is the quick swap feature that they have, so they're magnets and you can just kind
of take them off put them on and just swap out the filters really quickly you can stack the filters
and because they're so thin they don't produce any kind of vignetting that I've ever seen so that's
why I really like using the Freewell filters, and like I said I've got the 1/4 Glow Mist filter on
with the Gold Streak filter and I'll actually show you what it looks like to take it off.
So this yeah so this was the 1/4 Glow Mist filter so you can see what the difference in the footage
looks like without that filter on it and you can see there's still kind of like a glow,
like a soft hazy effect as well because the Gold Streak filter also gives you that kind
of effect so I'll take it off so you can see the difference as well with it off. So this is without
any filters on it now so as well as it producing that streak with the lights it also gives your
footage a bit of a warmer effect as well so yeah that's with the Gold Streak filter. So I'm going
to put them back on so there's the Gold Streak filter and then here is the 1/4 Glow Mist. So
I've just switched over to the Blue Streak filter and you might be able to see a difference in terms
of the light, I don't have any of the Glow Mist filters on so it's just a Blue Streak filter
and so you can see that the streak and the light isn't very strong and also there's more of a
blue tint this is a tint, well like a blue haze to the to the footage particularly if you look
over in this direction at the wall behind me, so yeah, so like I was saying the Glow Mist filter,
sorry, the Gold Streak filter you've got more of a warm tone to the footage and then with the
Blue Streak filter you've got more of a blue tone to the to the um footage and then less
of a less of a streak because there's a warmer light in the background but if I had a white
light in the background then that would be more pronounced. In fact let me let me just get one.
So these are something that I haven't talked about yet either - I feel like I'm doing like a
whole different other video now but SmallRig sent me out some lights a little while ago
which I really need to do a review on I've been meaning to for a little while now and
they are these three little lights which I'm gonna put in the background now,
but yeah they're these tiny little lights, so I'm gonna gonna review these very soon,
but I'm gonna put one of these in the background so that you can see.
Or maybe not in the background I'll just hold it up see if you can… oh yeah wow so that looks
pretty cool, but you can see that that's more of a Blue Streak. So I'm going to switch over to the
Gold Streak filter now and see what the streak looks like with that, so
in fact let me just take… I'll just do it now whilst the lights on so I'll take that off
and then take Glow Mist off there and put this back on, so there you go.
Let's put a green gel on it just to see what that looks like.
I'm gonna switch over to the Gold Streak, just got my fingerprints all over that– to the Blue Streak
and take this off
Okay so this light has a green gel on it and this light has no gel on it,
so this is just replicating what the Blue Streak would look like with a white light,
so yeah if you want to change the color of the light then… the color of the streak then
you just add a gel to the, to your lights but it's actually really useful to see that, but
yeah that was my little experiment over within this video. Definitely went out on
a little bit of a tangent with that little experimentation that I did but I put some,
a couple of lights in the background because one of the things I forgot to mention was that
you can spin these filters so that you can change the direction of the
flare so I'm just going to spin it around now so that you can see
that you can basically position them in any way that you want which is really useful.
And also when I was talking about stacking the filters you can also stack the streak
filters as well. So at the moment I've put the 1/2 Glow Mist filter on just because
I thought why not just give it a try, but I'm actually also going to put a Blue Streak filter on
and so then you can see what it looks like with both a Gold Streak and a Blue Streak,
so you can create some really interesting lighting effects and
yeah that looks pretty cool so I'm just moving the Blue Streak filter independently,
yeah that looks– that's actually quite interesting, so yeah that's one of the
things about being able to stack filters is that you can create some different
cool effects something that I hadn't tried until now where I was just switching out
the filters and then I kind of held one up and then saw that this crisscross thing happened so
that's really cool like that just been playing around a little bit more, and one of the things
that you can also do which I just discovered was just if you turn the light source in a different
direction you can actually change the intensity of the streak as well, so as well as changing the
direction by spinning the actual filters if you change the direction of the light, which makes
sense because you're putting more or less light into the lens, you can change the intensity.
So yeah that's what it looks like and I just wanted to share about that with you because I
talked about pro-mist filters and diffusion filters a little while ago in another video
and a couple of people asked me to see the difference between the different strengths,
so yeah that was the kind of purpose of this video and then also just to show you the
Gold Streak and Blue Streak filters. I feel like I've kind of rambled a bit in this video,
I'm so hot because it's a bit of a heat wave in the UK at the moment and I had to close my door
so that you couldn't hear the fans going on in the other room and so yeah it is 30 degrees
in this room and I feel like my camera might overheat soon so I'm gonna wrap this video up,
but yeah I hope you found it useful, I'll put links in the description to the filters so that
you can check them out, and yeah if you're curious to try them out yourself then yeah pick up a set,
but thanks for watching, and catch you next time.