@@luispaniagua23 I have a few tutorials here and there, but I’m also constantly improving and sometimes old tutorials feel outdated. If your comment gets 100 likes I’ll consider it again
@keith-knittelАй бұрын
To blur, or not to blur is my favorite Shakespeare quote
@cleverghostchiliАй бұрын
@@keith-knittel the existential crisis as old as time
@evayap_Ай бұрын
there is definitely something magical that happens when you soften an image
@cleverghostchiliАй бұрын
@@evayap_ ghosts in the edges
@CartyCantDanceАй бұрын
Our eyes do it naturally. The image becomes more “organic” or “natural” which definitely create that magic.
@sorinsecaraАй бұрын
Okay just finished watching, fantastic work as always! In a world obsessed with getting The Batman look while at the same time saying that blurring things out is always bad, it's great to see that with just the right amount of Cleverness, one can have massive control over the final image. Stay awesome dude!
@cleverghostchiliАй бұрын
@@sorinsecara I liked the Helios on The Batman. Dune 2 less so, each project is different! It’s about control and restraint to match the mood, sometimes blur sometimes sharp
@sorinsecaraАй бұрын
@@cleverghostchili Yeah exactly, completely agree! By the way, when is a soundtrack production tutorial coming, your musical compositions are fantastic!
@cleverghostchiliАй бұрын
@@sorinsecara I have an introductory video to music composition! It didn’t perform as well so I assume there’s not a lot of interest kzfaq.info/get/bejne/e7OoktWI2Z3QlGg.html
@sorinsecaraАй бұрын
@@cleverghostchili Just watched it, super useful! Sorry I am slowly binging your whole channel and didn't get there yet, should have checked before asking lol. Thanks man, hope you have a great day!
@sorinsecaraАй бұрын
Man I get so excited every time you post, glad to be here so early. Brb, gotta watch the masterpiece.
@cleverghostchiliАй бұрын
@@sorinsecara early club!
@eknibАй бұрын
Your style of cinematography is my favourite at the moment. Incredible shots!
@cleverghostchiliАй бұрын
@@eknib thank you, sometimes I’m insecure about how boring my style is but I’ve been staying true to myself and people seem to like it
@AlbertKarhuFilms29 күн бұрын
@@cleverghostchili its nothing even remotely close to boring. It's organic and I would say very true to life if you can say so. I love your style!
@888berg3 күн бұрын
Wow - would love a DaVinci tutorial on that one. I love the idea of the alternate triangle :))
@jordanmarquezmovАй бұрын
Love your work bro! Without a doubt one of my favorite channels on filmmaking!
@cleverghostchiliАй бұрын
The journey never ends!
@Chris43791FTWАй бұрын
i absolutely love the credits scene in every video, something so simple yet beautiful
@cleverghostchiliАй бұрын
@@Chris43791FTW of course, the ghosts deserve the best!
@calebhelms2110Ай бұрын
I love how your content is to the point, and it is actually helpful advice that is easy to understand. I also love how you're not pretentious like so many young filmmakers are nowadays. *Cough the guy's that only shoot with a over the top film emulation, and in 1.37:1 in f1.2 with a black pro mist*Cough. It's freaking annoying and it feels more like a trend than actually thought out filmmaking.
@cleverghostchiliАй бұрын
Glad it resonates, I value my viewers time as much as my own, no superfluous content here
@codylarosaАй бұрын
A peaceful and insightful moment every time I tune in to this clever ghost
@cleverghostchiliАй бұрын
It’s a peaceful and insightful moment once Cody comments 🙂↔️
@rockindude3001Ай бұрын
Especially with YT, where videos have (or are forced to have) rather low bitrates, blurring will also help the encoding as more bits can be allocated to the important parts of the frame. Could be a nice side benefit. Beatiful shots as always.
@cleverghostchiliАй бұрын
I have an online acquaintance (was that you?) that did extensive testing on this, redownloading the uploaded KZfaq file of several versions with varying grain. There there were inconsistent results, but in some profiles, grain yielded a large file size suggesting it improved KZfaq performance. The main problem I’ve had with blur is the smoothing creates more gradients, which are prone to banding especially in the shadows
@rockindude3001Ай бұрын
@@cleverghostchili that wasn't me, sorry. But sounds like what I would expect. Encoding grain is really demanding bitrate wise and bitrate is usually what YT wants to not spend. There may be a point where you can force the encoder to spend more bits for grain to get rid of banding to a point. Excessive banding is another thing that happens when an encode is bitrate-starved. I guess my point is/was: selectively blurring in a discreet fashion lets YT allocate bits to the parts of the image that *you* deemed important. You're kind of tricking the encoder in a visually pleasing way. Obviously this has limits and gradients becoming too flat and free of grain means that banding is more obvious.
@dianaa8125Ай бұрын
love the look of this video! blur is just one aspect. Theres so much that went into this
@cleverghostchiliАй бұрын
@@dianaa8125 people have more control over their image than they think
@Iamshafi556Ай бұрын
this is my first video and believe me you're not explain any thing your showing the pure technique to us love you brr
@wbynanАй бұрын
I look forward to every one of your videos. They are all so polished and inspiring
@cleverghostchiliАй бұрын
Happy to hear, inspiration is one of my biggest goals. I wasn’t always as polished and still have a ways to go, enjoy the ride
@jaychow94Ай бұрын
Absolutely love this, you’re an excellent teacher, always get excited when you bring something new out. I made the credits!
@cleverghostchiliАй бұрын
@@jaychow94 I think you were there last time too
@vedroelcitraАй бұрын
Love all this simple techniques that you can just use on any camera you have. Thank you for sharing, subbed!
@cleverghostchiliАй бұрын
Welcome! Hope you enjoy the other content
@prismcollectionmusicАй бұрын
This is a great video! I've just been watching videos on how traditionally cinematographers have shot at F4 or higher. But if you still keep this as the ideal, you don't take into account the effect of modern lenses and (especially 6k and above) digital sensors. It's also hard to trade off the consistent colours and contrast of modern lenses, especially when relying on colour space transforms which assume native lenses (I'm also colour vision deficient so I can't afford to deal with unpredictable, subtle colour shifts caused by different lens colour and contrast). If we stick to modern lenses and sensors there's no choice but to use post processing. But also love the anti-consumerist bit, that's so important. Enjoyed the use of radial blur - you could try combining that with zoom in small amounts to simulate spherical aberration. I also really liked the point you made about bokeh making handheld shakes less nauseating. Finally as someone else said the edge detect plus blur is really worth trying - the edge detect can produce an output which you can tweak using curves before feeding it into the alpha input (hope I've got that right) of a blur node to choose exactly which edges are going to get blurred and hopefully save the colour detail in subtler transitions.
@cleverghostchiliАй бұрын
Thank you for your thoughts. For me I find the rendering on Zeiss to be very distinct at f1.4, it’s not necessarily the bokeh that I prefer. My color deficiency is quite strange, I’m hyper attuned to contrast and subtle color shifts but can’t identify certain hues. There are more blur techniques I didn’t go over, I will cover in more detail if I make a dedicated grading video
@prismcollectionmusicАй бұрын
@@cleverghostchili I'm guessing you've done the ishihara test - have you got protanomaly, deuteranomaly or something else? I think it's natural to focus on tones/contrast when colours are less prominent - I'm the same. For me (deuteranomaly) there is a sense of wrongness in a lot of colour edits but sometimes it's hard to identify how to fix them.
@cleverghostchiliАй бұрын
@@prismcollectionmusic Red-green for me. Vectorscope is a tool i use all the time, it's invaluable for me and how i fix those problems
@JaymesMedia4 күн бұрын
love this video. amazing job
@DocuDevotionalsАй бұрын
I just found this channel and you have a new subscriber. Beautiful work. That shot of the KTX train section at the end with your subject walking towards the vanishing point, beautiful and stunning.
@cleverghostchiliАй бұрын
Welcome glad you enjoy the framing
@westdk6705Ай бұрын
Yeah 🤠!! Ghost the Commandor !!! Spot on video
@cleverghostchiliАй бұрын
@@westdk6705 ghost army assemble
@stewartmooreАй бұрын
Insightful as ever . Thanks for posting , its always a pleasure watching your content and hearing your point of view.
@cleverghostchiliАй бұрын
@@stewartmoore thanks for listening, I always try to present my thoughts so anyone can take something away from it
@facugonzalez154Ай бұрын
Just find your channel! This content is gold!
@cleverghostchiliАй бұрын
@@facugonzalez154 welcome to Cleverland
@area51picturesАй бұрын
Wide open isn't the only way to get softness out of a lens. You can stop it down to maximum aperture and (unless you're on a Summilux) get maximum diffraction. Soderbergh said he'd shot a lot of Che stopping down to F22 with no ND filters -- apparently, it's much more common in older films than people realize. Just keep dirt off your sensor. But that's another way.
@cleverghostchiliАй бұрын
Great call! I used to shoot f11 and f22 on a crop sensor starting out all the time without an ND, the diffraction never bothered me so I can confirm this has a great overlooked rendering as well
really loved this vid and shot at 6:36 is a masterpiece!
@cleverghostchiliАй бұрын
@@silverplotfilms framing is king
@JoelCinematographyАй бұрын
6:28 Why does that train look like an anime scene from the early 2000s? 😭 It's so unreal, it doesn't look like motion picture.
@cleverghostchiliАй бұрын
Perhaps it’s not a common object speed and angle
@phildunphy1937Ай бұрын
Been waiting for a new vid. They always look great
@cleverghostchiliАй бұрын
@@phildunphy1937 thanks for being patient, been sorting out the backend stuff so should be smooth sailing moving forward
@PeteMajarichАй бұрын
I would watch a whole film in your style.
@cleverghostchiliАй бұрын
Getting there, slowly but surely!
@marcvigramАй бұрын
so informative, thanks! I will apply these right away :)
@XingxianYAN-dc2lcАй бұрын
Very good job as always!
@maxbond4917Ай бұрын
Great video as always 🔥
@psidamite29 күн бұрын
Love it!
@hugomalpeyreАй бұрын
Wow 💞😍😍 Now, make me plizzzz a 20min-ish short film
@cleverghostchiliАй бұрын
@@hugomalpeyre trying! Need actors…you interested?
@hugomalpeyreАй бұрын
@@cleverghostchili lemme Book my flight !
@ThaddeuspryorАй бұрын
Always so good......😎
@kuramafox1290Ай бұрын
Gorgeous cinematography, every shot looked like it was out a high budget film. I'm curious as to which lens this was shot on?
@cleverghostchiliАй бұрын
Hi, Zeiss Milvus 35mm f1.4 EF. I’ve sorta reviewed it here kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hLqnhpyCtcymgYk.html
@TerenceEnnАй бұрын
Radial blur ftw
@cleverghostchiliАй бұрын
So good
@davelimbu1952Ай бұрын
i really like your cinematography... which font did you use on the credits part?
@rovingearth7028Ай бұрын
I’m curious. What did you film these shots with? I’m specifically talking about lens and camera choice. It’s very interesting. Looks very organic.
@danielpathcreatorАй бұрын
BMCC 6K FF and Zeiss optics
@cleverghostchiliАй бұрын
Yes, specifically zeiss milvus 35mm f1.4. Organic is also the result of the grade
@vivjos1262Ай бұрын
Clever!
@XingxianYAN-dc2lcАй бұрын
👍👍👍
@TheJaredRodriguezАй бұрын
What exactly do you mean when you say you shoot defocused at f8? Thanks!
@cleverghostchiliАй бұрын
*Deep focus* - I’ll try to link words less and enunciate word endings more clearly
@sauzefilmsАй бұрын
others: use blur to shave off the sharpness from their cameras me: use blur & grain to hide my crappy iphone sensor 💀
@cleverghostchiliАй бұрын
But the megapickles
@SxckyBoiАй бұрын
Still love u❤
@cleverghostchiliАй бұрын
love received
@apmanti12Ай бұрын
edge detect -> blur
@cleverghostchiliАй бұрын
Sounds like the rendering of a certain familiar camera!
@shueibdahirАй бұрын
I'm quite shocked about how good the bmcc 6k looks. Can the image be pushed as much as the cinemadng on the fp?
@cleverghostchiliАй бұрын
My experience is the base look on the FP is superior to the blackmagic. Bmcc6k has a color science designed for state of the art color grading tools. I think the Blackmagic requires more work to get a good image, but a high image ceiling. It’s also easier to achieve pushed looks due to its color separation where the FP looks more naturally accurate and great for minimal grades. Because the images are gentler in the Blackmagic with lower contrast, you can implement contrasty grading tools like bleach bypass with more balance. The key difference is the information in the highlights emulating the pleasing Arri highlight roll off. FP is fine but slightly muted for pushed color, also because non native log and workflows in Davinci. For pushing exposure, the FP wins by a landslide, much better noise and lowlight and manipulation, I would say the blackmagic performs worse when lifting shadows. Both are great, blackmagic missing the some of that FP immersive texture
@shueibdahirАй бұрын
@@cleverghostchili That is interesting. i noticed the same thing about the shadows when I downloaded some BMCC braw clips. I'd like to add that the arri like highlight rolloff is easily achievable with the curves node using soft clip tools when using cinemadng files. Blackmagic seems to be processing it internally which is something i'm not a fan of as it compresses the highlights waay too much
@cleverghostchiliАй бұрын
One of my key grading techniques is to compress highlights, maybe highlight roll off is not the precise term I’m referencing, but I like how highlights look on the blackmagic more
@shueibdahirАй бұрын
@@cleverghostchili Oh yes, that might be because the blackmagic looks like the midrange and the upper midrange of the curve is lifted while incorporating more contrast using s-curve. Also it looks like the highlights are less saturated on the bmcc but don't quote me on that i'm not too sure
@BLACKspaghettiАй бұрын
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@cleverghostchiliАй бұрын
@@BLACKspaghetti 🇰🇷🇰🇷
@michelangelocorrado1961Ай бұрын
What camera and lens was this shot on
@cleverghostchiliАй бұрын
Hi, tech info at end of video, entirely shot on BMCC6kFF and Zeiss Milvus 35mm f1.4
@mariohazard821Ай бұрын
What setup did you use in this shots? :)
@cleverghostchiliАй бұрын
@@mariohazard821 hi I put the gear in the end of the video. It was entirely shot on the bmcc6kff and Zeiss Milvus 35mm f1.4
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@cleverghostchili27 күн бұрын
I thought we were already friends
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