Brokeh lighting system

It appears that they're using complimentary colors which would just cancel one another out, so then possibly the diffusion effect has only to do with the diffusion features of whatever material they're using. I'm not sure I like the colored highlights it creates, as on the wine glass. I'm leaning towards gimmick with this.
 
"as on the wine glass. I'm leaning towards gimmick with this. "

I think the wine glass looks good.

I dislike the squares one can see from a good condition softbox.

Luckily my softboxes are all crushed out of shape, rust stained and muddy.. perfect!

I think the take away here .. consider breaking your sources for the right shoot when a more naturalistic look is required.

For example a crumpled net curtain with a few stains over a softbox will 'break it' up a bit.

THe first few shots were a great sci fi effect that one would only bring in under a specific instruction from the director.. rent not buy.
 
rob norton said:
A gimmick as in drawing attention in a sea of products but still works?
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I just don't see a whole lot with it that can't be acomplished by other means and the things it can do that can't be easily
achieved by other means look gimmicky to me. The colored highlights particularly.

It reminds me of all of the special effects that I have on my RGBWW lights, I have used those effects ONCE in the past two and a half years. I used the fire setting on
my Luxli Cello for the scene we were shooting with two talent sitting in front of a huge fireplace. It was cool but generally all of those lighting effects are a gimmick
that I would never consider as a factor in which lights to buy. I honestly feel that way about RGB lights in general, they can do some cool stuff but a lot of it is so
"effects" looking so as to be not very usable most of the time by most shooters.

If you dig it though, get one. Dedo makes excellent stuff, you'd never go wrong buying a Dedo product, but I'm sure these are not cheap either?
 
It makes sense, since real ambient light is going to have reflections from multiple objects and foliage. I thought the difference was not subtle at all and looked great.

Some of it really did look like a warming filter to me, though, and a warming filter would impact black and white images as well, so that part wasn't convincing to me. They should have showed differences in vectorscopes.
 
morgan_moore said:
"as on the wine glass. I'm leaning towards gimmick with this. "

I think the wine glass looks good.

I dislike the squares one can see from a good condition softbox.

Luckily my softboxes are all crushed out of shape, rust stained and muddy.. perfect!

I think the take away here .. consider breaking your sources for the right shoot when a more naturalistic look is required.

For example a crumpled net curtain with a few stains over a softbox will 'break it' up a bit.

THe first few shots were a great sci fi effect that one would only bring in under a specific instruction from the director.. rent not buy.
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Yeah they should have compared the wine glass without the material to show more obvious lighting reflections, which might be least preferred overall.

I like what it does to the the RGB street lighting at 04:20 as well.

A Julio Macat ASC endorsement can't be taken lightly and VASTLY different to a youtube reviewer (salesperson) churning out their weekly videos.

I'm not about to buy a set but curious about the tech.
 
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I often smile at these kinds of things when we sort of reinvent things, claim them as new and amazing and then create a market for a product that is often sort of a mistake.

I’m old now so looking back you see things over and over again. When I was kit starved and money was tight, I often made do and mended. Have you ever had an arri Fresnel with a cracked lens? They would throw really pretty coloured fringes, and diffuser of all sorts was tried to get rid of them with varying results, none perfect. Broken Fresnel lenses do this rainbow thing really well.

As I’ve always done live stuff on stage, we’d have big problems with spill from video projectors and often we’d have complicated cues for the vidiots to follow and we’d get it wrong and cue 125, which might be shutter close, came late and we’d accidentally light an actor with a picture active, like a lake, or the sea. Sometimes it looked terrible, but other times the texture applied to faces looked great, or maybe it made a costume come alive. You can throw dapples, or sparkles or even weird patterns. It’s also possible to do colour gradients maybe cyan into yellows or blue into red. With photoshop and even a small modest projector if you are after effects you already probably have the capability without buying anything. Marketing happy accidents as new products does make me smile.

Next time you have something set up with a white screen and some time to kill, and have a projector, try to project some abstract stuff, it’s amazing!
 
This whole idea seems to be pushed for skin tones only. Having worked for more than two decades for clients that were super critical about the color of their clothes, gems and products (about half pre-digital and half afterwards) I can only imagine the nightmare trying to achieve accurate color on the various items in a scene lit with this approach. Talk about crossover and contaminated color problems.... Even a soft bounce reflector that lowers the color temp by 500°K can make it hard to get the color where you want it and may require careful select color adjustments (easy enough on stills today, but not quite as easy in a moving set) where there may be several distinct adjustments needed to please a color critical client. Just my two cents.

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