M. David Mullen, ASC

NYC July 2022

Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. August 2024.

Near Victoria Station, London

Battersea Park, London

4. I used for one theater scene in “Etoile” combined with a Tiffen Black Fog filter. I put the shots from dailies in the last frame. I called the filter a “half black tulle” since it’s lighter than my black tulle filter.

3. It was such an open weave that I found that it hardly softened at all, almost too light… but then I discovered the lovely flares it creates around lights, a soft, organic multi-point effect.

2. But it has a simple crosshatch weave that creates a 4-point star effect so I’ve been looking for material in a honeycomb pattern. I finally found something in the craft section of a Walmart out in the Mojave Desert.

For years I’ve used a black tulle material similar to what is used for a ballerina tutu, glued onto a 4x5 filter frame as a diffusion filter (William Wages, ASC told me about this fabric). It’s lighter than any pantyhose diffusion, maybe similar to a 1/2 Hollywood Black Magic in softening.

Near Oxford Street station, London

Tower Bridge area, London

Early breakfast in Downtown Brooklyn. April 2019.

Paris. January 2024.

Paris

Water Lane, Richmond UK

Views from walk from Richmond to Twickenham along

Views from walk from Richmond to Twickenham along

Twickenham

Tide is high near my Richmond apartment.

Jupiter 1 hour 30m time-lapse from 2nd January 2026.

Io and Ganymede out to the right with Europa and the GRS making an appearance.
8X speed.

C6. ASI585MC. 2xBarlow

#astronomy #astrophotography

Eastern Sierras moonrise.

When the subject is trying to teach you something.

Santa Monica in fog, taken exactly a year ago.

Cafe life in Kensington

Foggy morning in Richmond