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

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.

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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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.

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.

Tony Polson wrote:

Paul Furman wrote:
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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.

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...

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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

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.


I think you get more interesting bokeh in movies in natural highlights
than in lights and such in the BG.

Intentional use of flare used to be more common in still photogrpahy as
well. In a panned cine shot, flare is very dynamic.

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