How to achieve this look? Diopters?

I'm not sure what part of the look your going for, but throwing a macro lens on the camera isn't all they did. 'The look' is made by art design above all else, having the proper color palette in the frame especially. Choosing the lens matters, but framing and camera movements beat that out, and lighting in such a way as to emphasis the talent. I already forgot, but I think they might have overexposed the background in a lot of that as well as had it blurred. But again, you need to be a bit more specific. What about those videos do you like?
 
Cassius said:
I'm not sure what part of the look your going for, but throwing a macro lens on the camera isn't all they did. 'The look' is made by art design above all else, having the proper color palette in the frame especially. Choosing the lens matters, but framing and camera movements beat that out, and lighting in such a way as to emphasis the talent. I already forgot, but I think they might have overexposed the background in a lot of that as well as had it blurred. But again, you need to be a bit more specific. What about those videos do you like?
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If you watch the videos there are scenes where there is something blurry in front of the lens. That is mainly what I'm talking about. In the 2nd video, it is used a bit more effectively to throw a part of the scene out of focus and bend light.
 
I had no idea Youtube ever did that country specific thing. AMERICA RULES!!!!! TAKE THAT EUROPEANS!!!!!

In that case, your stock equipment can often get it. Just be really close to the foreground element. Not necessarily closer than your lens can focus, but somewhere near there. After that it's really a question of framing more than anything to get the reveal to be correct. It's a pretty easy technique once you get used to it.
 
Cassius said:
I had no idea Youtube ever did that country specific thing. AMERICA RULES!!!!! TAKE THAT EUROPEANS!!!!!

In that case, your stock equipment can often get it. Just be really close to the foreground element. Not necessarily closer than your lens can focus, but somewhere near there. After that it's really a question of framing more than anything to get the reveal to be correct. It's a pretty easy technique once you get used to it.
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Did you watch both videos? Its not just a matter of foreground things being in frame.

Further, I heard a talk with the DP and he said he held frameless diopters in front of the lens. My question is what diopters can I buy and where?
 
Now I see what you're looking at. I looked at them before, but the descriptions in your posts didn't connect for me. In that case, yeah, that's one option. You can buy diopters on B&H and other places, but frameless is a different matter. You may need to find one you can try taking the glass out of. It would have to be something like that, because you wouldn't be using it right. The image can also be distorted in After Effects for a lot less cost if you already have the program, and more reliability, at a cost of more time.

Looking at the first video, I think you could get the same effect with most kinds of convex filters, and it works on the same principle as what I first thought you meant; the filter itself is so blurred that it's not recognizable except as something in the frame. And because it's partly transparent the color and light tones make it through, furhter deemphasizing. The second one has a lot more going for it, but the first is a fairly simple excecution.

To correct my first paragraph, it looks like B&H has diopters without frames for some specific type of filter system, but it might be better to buy a super cheap thing on Ebay and take it apart.
 
Postmaster said:
Grrrrrr!

Frank
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Yeah... I have a clip on Youtube, and there's a 'check for copyright' function... and Germany is indicated as a place where the clip is not available...

I mean... is Germany becoming the last baston of Copyright Holder's Rights... One would think the US would be the place MPAA would force such a blockout...

Someone should come up with some sort of 'music' that would spoof 'copyrighted material', but not be the material, then sue the various powers that be for such filtering...
 
Seems to me you could just find something to hold up to the lens. Like some plastic, wavy glass, or anything semi / transparent. You could experiment with various objects and see what works and what doesn't. Might even find something really cool.
 
My first thought once I identified it was actually thin silk, or some semi-transparent cloth like that.

He probably used a diopter because he already had one.
 
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