Maximilian Sándor Lakner

No, I think I mean a filter with very irregular streaks on it, in all directions, so as the camera moves the streaks change rapidly. Maybe it doesn't exist.

Or just one intensity of streaks but radically different angles as the lightsource moves within the frame.

Hi, I was biking home today after watching Finding Dory, going uptown on first avenue in Manhattan, and I always love the "effect" I was experiencing, and I often become away of it after going to a movie - where all the streetlights and lightsources bloom and streak - but everything not near the light sources looks not too soft - but the main thing is that the streaks and blooming are totally irregular, some lights have massive streaks, others very little, some in one direction, some in another - is there any filter or other image modifier that can approximate that? Thanks!! Max

Thank you for your detailed and thoughtful response Adam! My shoot was on Sunday unfortunately, so I did not have a chance to take your advice for this. I wound up going for a darker, less frontal look than the Taral Hicks video. I used silver bounces, one on each side of the direction she is looking, high and at a 45 degree angle approximately, to get shine on the upper cheeks, favoring the far side of the face, and I used a small light above the camera dimmed way down for added glow over all, and I used small diffused fresnels for kickers when possible. I'll post the video here when it's finished! Round cut outs on panels is a great trick that I'm sure I will use in the future.

Check this one out too, directed by Wong Kar Wai

I'm wondering how this effect was created, I need to imitate it for a music video this weekend - You can see the reflection of the light in his sunglasses at 0:07, but I don't recognize it, and it's pretty low res. I'm thinking of using a small or medium chimera without the front diffusion, and blocking the direct source with some foamcore inside it so it bounces around the silver inside, and becomes a big round silver source, just in front and above the subject. It's basically making the incident light under key, but creating white reflections (with the right shiny makeup) just on the front of the face, which I understand in principal but not sure how to achieve. What do you think?