Can a simple filter help you make your digital images look more cinematic and film-like? The answer is yes. K&F CONCEPT has a series of Black Diffusion filters (sometimes referred to as “Black Mist”) that has small particles embedded into the glass designed to diffuse light and create a soft, glowing, mist-like effect.
The SmokeGENIE is a battery-powered, pocketable smoke machine that its creators say is one-tenth the size of a typical smoke machine but can match the output.
The MicroFogger is a tiny handheld fog machine that lets you create fog on a small scale when your space and/or budget are limited.
Popping a gel in front of your rim light is a quick, easy way to change the feel of your portraits.
Atmosphere Aerosol is a new aerosol spray for photographers and filmmakers that essentially serves as a fog machine that you can easily carry around in your camera bag.
That Dehaze feature that Adobe teased last month is now official for Photoshop's Adobe Camera RAW and Lightroom in a major new Creative Cloud update. The feature helps eliminate fog and haze from photos to create "startlingly clear images."
Photographer Jesse David McGrady has a super simple trick for adding a hazy, ethereal effect to your photographs: wrap a plastic sandwich bag around your lens. It sounds ridiculous and silly, but the results you get are actually quite nice!
An update on the iPhone 5 and "Purplegate": DPReview has published a pretty in-depth review of the iPhone 5 as a camera -- a review that has 1 of the 5 pages dedicated to examining the purple haze issue that has been widely discussed in recent days.