Beautiful Look at the Canon 50mm f/1.0
Flickr user Frannie 1 shot these beautiful photographs of the rare Canon 50mm f/1.0. The lens currently goes for over $4,000 used on eBay. That is one beautiful piece of glass!
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Incredibly Cheap And Easy DIY Bokeh Effect
DIY bokeh from Eirik Solheim on Vimeo. I’ve talked a bit about bokeh in the past. I think its a fascinating effect. While it might not be appropriate for a lot of projects, it can offer a unique look. Eirik Solheim found a fairly easy way to create a DIY bokeh effect using black paper...
Chinese New Year Captured By DSLRs
2011: The Year of the Rabbit from Jonah Kessel on Vimeo. DLSR News Shooter posted a beautiful video from Chinese New Year in Beijing. Using a Canon 7D and a 5D mark II, Jonah Kessel and friends captured the amazing holiday firework displays from the small firecrackers to the monstrous palm explosions around town. I...
Floating Light Words with Custom Bokeh
Kaleb Wentzel-Fisher had the brilliant idea of using custom bokeh to spell out words in his videos, and spent a good amount of time developing and perfecting the idea. The above video, titled “Light Works”, is a demonstration of this technique in action. The results are pretty awesome. Here’s a behind-the-scenes video showing how it...
Light Works – Video Using DIY Bokeh Effect
Light Works from Supernormals on Vimeo. Supernormals just posted an incredible video on vimeo using a really amazing bokeh effect. Bokeh is how your lens deals with out of focus light. They cut the words out of vinyl stickers and stuck them to glass. Then they placed the glass in a matte box and used...
Anamorphic lens look without the expense for HDSLRs and Indie Filmmakers
Tweet Many love the look of Anamorphic lenses (read this planet5D post to learn more about anamorphic lenses or this story), but they’re expensive and you’ve got to jump thru some hoops to get the video in the right aspect ratio. Well, Timur Civan has been at it again – remember the 102 year old...
Reader Photo of the Week: The Show Must Go On
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Shoot Fireworks Out of Focus for Beautiful Bokeh Explosions
Next time you’re attend a fireworks display, try shooting your photographs or video out of focus. This video by Danny Cooke is a pretty beautiful look at what you can achieve by doing this. What’s more, if you focus on the spectators in the foreground, it looks like they’re watching bokeh fireworks as well! (via...
Zeiss announces new Distagon T* 1,4/35 – a moderate wide angle lens
Tweet Carl Zeiss (a planet5D sponsor) has announced a new “moderate wide angle” lens – the Distagon T* 1,4/35. I’ve got a lot to learn about lenses, but the sample image from this looks darn awesome. Here’s the Zeiss PR: OBERKOCHEN/Germany, 01.09.2010. A woman is sitting at the bar of a dimly-lit cafe. Lost in...
Bokeh Effect in Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
It’s not just photography enthusiasts that like to play with bokeh — check out this short clip from the new movie Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. Pay careful attention to the bokeh whizzing by in the background outside the bus. The look is so subtle that most people probably wouldn’t even notice it. To learn...
