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Hollywood Bokeh
Here's a collection of interesting bokeh samples from various movies:
http://www.edgehill.net/1/?SC=go.php&DIR=Misc/photography/bokeh/movies For those who poo-pooh the value of bokeh, movies are a great example of where deliberate out-of-focus highlights are routinely used to create subject isolation, mood, drama and emotional impact. There are some interesting effects in these examples, including some truley weird aperture blade shapes and intentional use of flare. They are shot with a dSLR at a 21" computer monitor (my TV) with a slow shutter speed at 28mm to (try to) avoid banding & moire (not always successful). Not great execution but you get the idea. Click on the image to get to the individual subgalleries (below) for that movie including an imdb link with details about each flick. PS does anyone recognize the camera in this screen grab? http://www.edgehill.net/1/?SC=go.php&DIR=Misc/photography/bokeh/movies/the-photographer-2003 -I don't know |
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Paul Furman wrote:
Here's a collection of interesting bokeh samples from various movies: http://www.edgehill.net/1/?SC=go.php&DIR=Misc/photography/bokeh/movies An interesting collection. However, I don't think your movie titles and dates are accurate. For those who poo-pooh the value of bokeh, movies are a great example of where deliberate out-of-focus highlights are routinely used to create subject isolation, mood, drama and emotional impact. There are some interesting effects in these examples, including some truley weird aperture blade shapes and intentional use of flare. They are shot with a dSLR at a 21" computer monitor (my TV) with a slow shutter speed at 28mm to (try to) avoid banding & moire (not always successful). Not great execution but you get the idea. Click on the image to get to the individual subgalleries (below) for that movie including an imdb link with details about each flick. PS does anyone recognize the camera in this screen grab? http://www.edgehill.net/1/?SC=go.php&DIR=Misc/photography/bokeh/movies/the-photographer-2003 -I don't know I would guess that it is a Leica copy. It could be an early Canon rangefinder, or a Nicca, which was also sold by Sears under the Tower brand, dating from anywhere between the late 1940s to the mid to late 1950s. |
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Hollywood Bokeh
Tony Polson wrote:
Paul Furman wrote: Here's a collection of interesting bokeh samples from various movies: http://www.edgehill.net/1/?SC=go.php&DIR=Misc/photography/bokeh/movies An interesting collection. However, I don't think your movie titles and dates are accurate. I checked them against www.imdb.com Click on the image to get to the individual subgalleries (below) for that movie including an imdb link with details about each flick. PS does anyone recognize the camera in this screen grab? http://www.edgehill.net/1/?SC=go.php&DIR=Misc/photography/bokeh/movies/the-photographer-2003 -I don't know I would guess that it is a Leica copy. That was the one movie that I couldn't find in imdb, the character bought the camera from a 'street vendor' in NYC for $30 saying it was a 'classic'. It is awfully tiny. The story doesn't have that much to do with photography, quirky surreal quest for some valuable photos he lost walking the streets of NY with some strangers he met including Maggie Gyllenhaal as an obsessive compulsive palm reader's daughter :-) It could be an early Canon rangefinder, or a Nicca, which was also sold by Sears under the Tower brand, dating from anywhere between the late 1940s to the mid to late 1950s. |
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Hollywood Bokeh
"Paul Furman" wrote in message t... Tony Polson wrote: Paul Furman wrote: Here's a collection of interesting bokeh samples from various movies: http://www.edgehill.net/1/?SC=go.php&DIR=Misc/photography/bokeh/movies An interesting collection. However, I don't think your movie titles and dates are accurate. I checked them against www.imdb.com Click on the image to get to the individual subgalleries (below) for that movie including an imdb link with details about each flick. PS does anyone recognize the camera in this screen grab? http://www.edgehill.net/1/?SC=go.php&DIR=Misc/photography/bokeh/movies/the-photographer-2003 -I don't know I would guess that it is a Leica copy. That was the one movie that I couldn't find in imdb, the character bought the camera from a 'street vendor' in NYC for $30 saying it was a 'classic'. It is awfully tiny. The story doesn't have that much to do with photography, quirky surreal quest for some valuable photos he lost walking the streets of NY with some strangers he met including Maggie Gyllenhaal as an obsessive compulsive palm reader's daughter :-) The movie in question was 'The Photographer' and it came out in 2000. It could be an early Canon rangefinder, or a Nicca, which was also sold by Sears under the Tower brand, dating from anywhere between the late 1940s to the mid to late 1950s. |
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Hollywood Bokeh
john cuthbertson wrote:
Paul Furman wrote: Tony Polson wrote: Paul Furman wrote: Here's a collection of interesting bokeh samples from various movies: http://www.edgehill.net/1/?SC=go.php&DIR=Misc/photography/bokeh/movies An interesting collection. However, I don't think your movie titles and dates are accurate. I checked them against www.imdb.com Click on the image to get to the individual subgalleries (below) for that movie including an imdb link with details about each flick. PS does anyone recognize the camera in this screen grab? http://www.edgehill.net/1/?SC=go.php&DIR=Misc/photography/bokeh/movies/the-photographer-2000 -I don't know I would guess that it is a Leica copy. That was the one movie that I couldn't find in imdb, the character bought the camera from a 'street vendor' in NYC for $30 saying it was a 'classic'. It is awfully tiny. The story doesn't have that much to do with photography, quirky surreal quest for some valuable photos he lost walking the streets of NY with some strangers he met including Maggie Gyllenhaal as an obsessive compulsive palm reader's daughter :-) The movie in question was 'The Photographer' and it came out in 2000. OK, OK... I fixed that, sheesh you photographer people are picky :-p It could be an early Canon rangefinder, or a Nicca, which was also sold by Sears under the Tower brand, dating from anywhere between the late 1940s to the mid to late 1950s. |
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Tony Polson wrote:
Paul Furman wrote: snip PS does anyone recognize the camera in this screen grab? http://www.edgehill.net/1/?SC=go.php&DIR=Misc/photography/bokeh/movies/the-photographer-2003 -I don't know I would guess that it is a Leica copy. It could be an early Canon rangefinder, or a Nicca, which was also sold by Sears under the Tower brand, dating from anywhere between the late 1940s to the mid to late 1950s. I don't think so, the camera only has a viewfinder window and no visible rangefinder window. I thought it might be a Hit camera (P&S from the 1950's that uses 16mm film), but it looks too big. There have been many hundreds of camera companies that have appeared and vanished over the past 150 years, some of their cameras get used in movies so that anorak wearers/train spotters/fanatics like us will bust a few braincells to try and work out what make/model it is and give the film free publicity. |
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Hollywood Bokeh
PS does anyone recognize the camera in this screen grab?
http://www.edgehill.net/1/?SC=go.php&DIR=Misc/photography/bokeh/movies/the-photographer-2003 It looks to me like one of many French and Italian cameras, similar to the Cornu Otobloc, the Bencini Rolet & Koroll or the Alsaphot Ajax. But it isn't any of those. The red logo looks like it came from a Vario shutter. And it does look an awful lot like a Hit on steroids. It may be a pastiche fabricated by the props department. Some Chinese or Korean mystery camera. An Alsaphot prototype that never saw production... -- Nicholas O. Lindan, Cleveland, Ohio Darkroom Automation: F-Stop Timers, Enlarging Meters http://www.darkroomautomation/index.htm n o lindan at ix dot netcom dot com |
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