Shawn Fields Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 I'm very curious how these effects in this commercial were done. It sort of looks like tilt/shift but too extreme. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Satsuki Murashige Posted February 5, 2009 Premium Member Share Posted February 5, 2009 It looks to me like some of the soft focus shots may have been done with vaseline or KY Jelly smeared on a clear filter in the matte box. You can get very distinct edges between soft and sharp using this technique, depending on how thick you smear the jelly and where. It doesn't take much at all to make the image completely soft. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piotr Ciacka Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 This site says it was shot by Philippe Le Sourd, not Doyle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thom Stitt Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 Wow, that was incredibly gorgeous from beginning to end. I also thought of vaseline for the half-blurred effect - Dylan Macleod at the reduser forums suggested it might be waterglass (a sheet of rippled glass) used in front of a long lens. I'd love to get all the details though - camera, lenses, etc. Really a gorgeous little film - except for the cut-cut-cut-cut-cut that doesn't separate it much from every other spot for every other product in the world - and when "Luis Vuitton" appears onscreen at the end, it seems doubly ridiculous and absurd after all of the visual poetry that preceded it. It might be an example of making your spot TOO good! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mitch Monthie Posted February 6, 2009 Share Posted February 6, 2009 Most likely it was done using some sort of tilt lens like a Lensbaby, made by LENSBABY, INC. [url="http://lensbaby.com/index.php"]http://lensbaby.com/index.php[/url] Vaseline is an old school trick. Other films you could see something of the sort (not sure if they use a lensbaby) includes Deakin's [i]Assasination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford[/i], and Kaminski's [i]The Diving Belle and the Butterfly[/i] Of course, Deakin's could have used vaseline as well. However the effects look pretty heavily controlled. Yet, he is a god so not that he couldn't have done what he did with vaseline, I'm just assuming he used a special lens. Anyone with anymore info? -Mitch Monthie Aspiring DP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn Fields Posted February 6, 2009 Author Share Posted February 6, 2009 This site says it was shot by Philippe Le Sourd, not Doyle. I remember reading an interview somewhere with Bruno Aveillan and I thought he said it was shot by Doyle. Maybe a collaboration? -The vaseline is an old trick but still effective, for diffusion, but could it really blur that much? -would a lensbaby be that sharp in the areas that aren't blurred? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Chris Keth Posted February 6, 2009 Premium Member Share Posted February 6, 2009 I don't think it's a tilt-shift or a lensbaby. Those just move the focal plane around. There is still a gradual transition to being out of focus in 3D space. This is a pretty sharp line from sharp to blurry. My bet is on KY on a flat. Vaseline looks more streaky. With KY, if you're careful, you can get it on there without any particular direction to the application to create linear smears. Use very little. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn Fields Posted February 6, 2009 Author Share Posted February 6, 2009 I don't think it's a tilt-shift or a lensbaby. Those just move the focal plane around. There is still a gradual transition to being out of focus in 3D space. This is a pretty sharp line from sharp to blurry. My bet is on KY on a flat. Vaseline looks more streaky. With KY, if you're careful, you can get it on there without any particular direction to the application to create linear smears. Use very little. Thank you Chris! KY seems to have that magic "touch". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Stone Posted January 31, 2010 Share Posted January 31, 2010 Thank you Chris! KY seems to have that magic "touch". See Cokin Filter #217....... Pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mahmoud Samir Posted January 19, 2014 Share Posted January 19, 2014 Hi guys, I am an amateur and newbie in cinematography. what KY means? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Holland Posted January 19, 2014 Share Posted January 19, 2014 KY is a water based lubricant found in Pharmacies and Sex shops! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Mimura Posted January 31, 2014 Share Posted January 31, 2014 (edited) Wow...that much KY and Vaseline... I can just see the filmmakers buying it at the grocery store. "this is for a Louis Vuitton commercial? Yeah, right." Edited January 31, 2014 by Daniel Mimura Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mei Lewis Posted February 23, 2014 Share Posted February 23, 2014 ... -would a lensbaby be that sharp in the areas that aren't blurred? Yes, they can be very sharp in the area that's in focus. This is a 1:1 crop of a frame I shot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mei Lewis Posted February 23, 2014 Share Posted February 23, 2014 And some of the elliptical bokeh in that video looks very much like a lensbaby too.Not sure if lensbabys were available back then though, so it's probably a different lens with a similar effect and a mix of a bunch of other techniques. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mei Lewis Posted February 23, 2014 Share Posted February 23, 2014 (edited) Elliptical bokeh from the film.Maybe it's simply freelensing? Edited February 23, 2014 by Mei Lewis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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