![]() So it is the look of the point of focus that provides the quality of the bokeh in the image. The aberrations in the lens never allow a perfect point of focus. Each spot of light in a photograph is really a tiny near-circle. It is the way that bokeh looks that gives it its character. This Google images page on ‘ shaped bokeh‘ demonstrates the point. You will produce heart-shaped bokeh highlights. Now shoot an image that will create bokeh. For example, cut a heart shape into a piece of card and held on the front of the lens. However, it is possible to create bokeh of different shapes. The tendency that bokeh has to form near circles is because of the shape of the aperture. This lens has circular bokeh at f 1.2 (wide open). In the picture above, taken at f8, if you look carefully, you can see that the highlights have eight sides ( click here to see the image enlarged). ![]() It is this which forms the shape of the most prominent highlights. Instead the blades form a shape which has sides corresponding to the number of blades. At other aperture sizes the iris blades form the shape of the aperture and they do not form a perfect circle. In some photographic lenses when the aperture is at its widest the iris is withdrawn behind the circular fixed aperture set into the diaphragm. The nature of the blurīokeh tends to form a circle only when the aperture is at it widest. The highlights are only more prominent because of the intensity of the light that created them. Many people assume that these highlights are the bokeh. Bokeh is often visible around strong highlights like light sources. All the bright highlights are shown as ‘circular’ spots (except the ones that merge or were moving lights). The picture above was taken, out of focus, with an eight second exposure at night. Consequently, as a controllable aspect of photography it is a way to affect the viewers understanding of the image. In either case it creates an atmosphere and can modify the content of the picture in a positive or negative way. ![]() Good quality blur can be a very pleasing part of an image, or it can be simply of no interest. This points the attention of the viewer to the area of the picture in focus, Thus, the important aspects of the image are emphasised. Photographers frequently create shallow focus so the out-of-focus area of the image does not draw the eye. Manufacturers therefore expend research and development resources to ensure that the bokeh produced by a lens is pleasing.īokeh is an important component of photographic composition. Photographic lenses that create more pleasing blur have higher sales value. This combination of factors may create blur that is pleasing to the eye, or not. Its shape, any optical aberrations it exhibits its situation in the photographic lens-set, the aperture and its shape, all affect the shape of the tiny circles that form bokeh. The bokeh that any individual photographic lens creates is the result of the unique characteristics of that particular lens. Its shape determines the shape of the light beams that are focused on the image sensor. The aperture forms the shape of the circles of confusion. The lens creates out of focus areas of the image when the circle of confusion is large enough to cause the sharpness to be lost. The blur is created by a combination of the lens and aperture setting resulting in part of the image being out of the depth of field. This Japanese word meaning blur or haze is pronounced BOK-kay. The way the lens renders individual points of light that are out of focus, and the quality of the blur, is ‘bokeh’. ![]() In photography anything that is outside the ‘ Depth of Field‘ will be blurred. The shapes are not quite circular.Ĭlick to view large and see the highlight shapes clearly. Out of focus lights on the London’s South Bank Arts Complex. ![]()
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![]() ![]() There are no track limitations, you can trim clips pretty easily, and even directly control volume and opacity in the timeline. ![]() In NLE mode you have many of your standard shortcuts and abilities that you would see inside any of the major NLEs. Think about HitFilm like Adobe Premiere and After Effects: they are connected by a bridge with the only difference being that HitFilm works inside of itself instead of having to open a secondary application. Once inside your project you can add media, create a sequence, even begin adding effects and composite shots. The project frame sizes don’t dictate your composite shot frame sizes, which have their own properties. Once you download and open up HitFilm 2 Ultimate you choose what you want your project frame rate and frame size to be - you can go up to 4K. To be honest this is really what captured my attention - a sub-$400 NLE/compositor that comes bundled with a planar tracker that is widely regarded as a staple in the industry? I thought I had better pay attention. The Mac-and Windows-based HitFilm 2 Ultimate costs just under $400 and includes the powerful planar tracking Mocha 3D camera-solving engine from Imagineer. In the second part, I touch on the HitFilm Plug-in Collection library, which takes the tools from HitFilm 2 Ultimate and places them inside many other post toolsets. In the first part of this review I will focus on HitFilm 2 Ultimate, an all-inclusive NLE, compositor and VFX constructing tool. That’s why I thought it was valuable to give FX Home’s offerings a try. Sometimes that on-the-way up indie filmmaker, or editor working side jobs, doesn’t have the financial freedom to subscribe to Adobe’s latest Creative Cloud products, purchase Avid Media Composer, or even subscribe to Red Giant’s Universe - not to mention Video Copilot Element3D, Boris Continuum Complete 9 - and the list goes on and on. When I contacted them about reviewing their HitFilm Ultimate software I discovered they had just released a set of plug-ins for many of today’s leading VFX and NLE products, including Adobe’s Premiere Pro and After Effects, Apple’s FCP X and Motion, and Sony’s Vegas. ![]() That is where FXHome’s HitFilm 2 Ultimate comes in. In addition, we all know that the traditional “editor” role is being superseded by the “editor/VFX/compositor” role, so the more you know - whether you are just starting out or a veteran learning something new - the more valuable you become.Īll of this has left me very interested in seeing an offering that combines editing, VFX and compositing in one package. It interests me because recently I’ve been doing more YouTube-based work and side projects, and many of my industry friends have that budget-strapped “passion project” they are working on. Over the past few months, I’ve been hearing a lot of buzz about what FXHome is doing with its products. ![]() |