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Video memories from my Berlin vacation, in August 2009. They include the zoo, the river, monuments, streets, plazas and lot of clouds. I experimented with tilt-shift from points of view not ideal for giving the idea of the world as if it was a little model, but I discovered interesting results even if I hadn't the chance to shoot from top. Ok, I also included a fake fake-model (a real model!), I guess that you'll spot it easily...

I had a lot of fun playing with LensBaby on a Canon EOS 500D: it gives you the feeling of shooting video with a Lomo. I used LensBaby Composer with double glass optic and sometimes the super wide angle add-on (I wish that the fisheye optic was already available this summer...). A few videos and time-lapses were shot with a normal Canon Lens, so I post-produced them simulating the defects of the other toy lenses. Can you recognize them?

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★ Video production & post-production: Giovanni Antico | gantico.com
Camera: Canon EOS 500D,
Lens: LensBaby Composer 50mm + double glass, Super Wide angle conversion lens, Canon EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM
Software: Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 + Adobe After Effects CS4
♫ Music: Through the Tunnel, by DoKashiteru | ccmixter.org/files/DoKashiteru/17775
(2008 - Music Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution)

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  • Miguel Angel Alvarado 2 years ago
    Stunning
    The composition is fantastic
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  • GAntico plus 2 years ago
    thank you Miguel
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  • Terje Nesthus 2 years ago
    fantastic! :) really cool and inspiring. now i want a 500D!
    how long can you film with that?
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  • Frederic Vercammen plus 2 years ago
    Splendid stuff
    I love the zoo shots !
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  • GAntico plus 2 years ago
    @Terje
    15 minutes is the limit for a single video, but for time-lapses I just take pictures with a dedicated remote control. With the battery grip I can shoot for many hours (not tried yet more then 12 hours...)

    @Frederic
    Thank you, I love the zoo too, I wish I had time for visiting the second zoo in Berlin (probably the only city in the world with 2 of them... :)
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  • Owain Bentley 2 years ago
    I was confused and amazed in equally wonderful measure. Fantastic!
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  • GAntico plus 2 years ago
    wonderful thanks!!!
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  • Rob Janson 2 years ago
    Wow! Better than the demo videos on Lensbaby's website. How'd you do the shot on the park bench? Is that natural distortion or a fisheye?
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  • GAntico plus 2 years ago
    Thank you Rob, actually the bench was over-sized, quite bigger then a normal one (I wouldn't have been able to run under it if it was a standard size... ;-).
    About the lens in that case I used a Wide angle by Canon: Canon EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM.
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  • Laura Caccia 2 years ago
    ma è fantasticoooo!! e la location ancora di più! ma come hai fatto a creare l'effetto "minitialia" in questo caso"miniberlin"?
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  • GAntico plus 2 years ago
    grazie Laura,
    ho usato le Lensbaby con cui puoi inclinare il piano di messa a fuoco e controllare il digradare del fuori fuoco, anche molto spinto. In pratica puoi dare l'impressione che sia un modellino riproducendo la tipica profondità di campo molto ridotta che siamo abituati a vedere nelle macro. Per rendere ancora più riuscito l'effetto bisognerebbe cercare di scattare dall'alto, come di solito succede per i modellini. Accelerare la velocità del video può aiutare ulteriormente.

    Per saperne di più, prova a cercare "miniature faking" e "tilt-shift": en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miniature_faking
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  • mpared plus 2 years ago
    lovely work posted in the curious brain
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  • GAntico plus 2 years ago
    Thank you mpared, it's a curios and cool blog!
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  • Daniele Poli 2 years ago
    Applauso!!!! complimenti!!!
    Domanda:
    avrei intenzione di creare un video tilt-shift a Milano sotto le feste natalizie, secondo te si può riprendere tipo in P.zza Duomo in Pzza Castello ecc. o in teoria servono permessi?
    Intendo riprese da terra con cavalletto, anche se sarebbe meglio dall'alto...
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  • GAntico plus 2 years ago
    @Daniele
    grazie mille del commento.

    sfortunatamente la normativa italiana è demenziale, serve un permesso per occupazione di suolo pubblico dal comune se vuoi posare un cavalletto, anche se lo fai per fini personali o artistici. Io sono anche stato schedato da una pattuglia dei carabinieri, perchè sembravo sospetto con un cavalletto...

    Nei luoghi molto centrali hai buone probabilità di imbatterti in polizia in borgherse, carabinieri, vigili ecc. ecc. Se ti fermi pochi minuti magari nessuno fa in tempo a romperti le scatole, se invece speri di fare un time-lapse di ore, beh prova a mimetizzarti!
  • Daniele Poli 2 years ago
    Grazie della risposta... mi confermi quello che avevo sentito dire... è incredibile, siamo in Italia!
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  • Paolo Esposito 2 years ago
    This is fantastic, I have never seen this fake model look before. Its truly great. Do you obtain the fake model look only through lenses and optics or you also add some post productions effects in AE?
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  • GAntico plus 2 years ago
    Hi Paolo, thank you for your comment. Well, I'm not the first one playing with the fake model look, but you can get a better idea if you google "tilt shift".
    The best way to get this look is shooting from a very high point of view and using tilt shift lenses on a full frame camera.
    A more affordable way is to shoot with Lensbaby (as I did in this video), but in some cases you can fake well with post-production (here I'm mixing real blurs with post-produced ones).
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  • Paolo Esposito 2 years ago
    Yeah, right after seeing your video I did a little googling. There are quite a lot of photoshop tutorials, I will try to apply those concepts to AE and see what come out. But great video. I also like the compositing, its very clever. I will be getting my T1i or 500D in a week and Ill start playing around with it. The lensbaby also seems to be an affordable solution. Is there any other benefits or uses besides very hight DoF?
  • GAntico plus 2 years ago
    you can orientate the direction of blur and experiment with plastic lenses. Maybe the biggest advantage on a 500D is that you can choose the aperture in video mode, since it's mechanic with lensbaby and you can override the limitation of no manual control in video with the 500D...
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  • Paolo Esposito 2 years ago
    Oh thats great, had not though of that? Since you have been working with the 500D, is it impossible to leave the setting manual for aperture at a fixed point? I noticed in your video that in the zoo part, when the tiger I think it is, walks closer to the camera it does either an aperture correction o exposure compensation or something like that. Is there any way to avoid that? Is that what you're talking about with the lens baby? The lensbaby? Is there any other solution?
  • GAntico plus 2 years ago
    you cannot choose any exposure setting in video mode, it's all automatic (this is one of the reasons why I upgraded to 7D). You can lock the starting exposure instead of having it recalculated each frame, maybe I forgot to do it with the tiger (and consider that such huge acceleration will highly enhance all the differences).
    What happens with lensbaby is that you force the aperture, so it's like working in Aperture priority mode.
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  • Paolo Esposito 2 years ago
    I see, I also wanted to buy de 7D. I think that at this point in time is one of the best DSLR for video, might be even better than de the 5D. The 1.6 crop is the downside in photography but video wise it seems to be quite a solid camera. My only problem is that I couldn't cough up the extra 1k usd so I bought the 500D to start. As soon as I get a chance to sell it in one of my trips to South America and have an extra 1k handy I will definitely upgrade to the 7D. Although I still think the 500D is the best sub 1k DSLR for video.
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  • Miriam Martinez Tejada 2 years ago
    Awesome! :)
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  • Graeme Hay 2 years ago
    Very impressive film, I love how each scene is magical in its own way.
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  • Sam Pardue 2 years ago
    Very nice film. This is one of the best I have seen of this type with a Lensbaby.
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  • Mark Rosen plus 1 year ago
    that was beautiful. great job, keep up the good work
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  • GAntico plus 1 year ago
    Thank you very much Miriam, Graeme, Sam and Mark!
    I pretty appreciate your comments :-)
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  • libellule 1 year ago
    just excellent. I am comfoted in the idea that visiting Berlin is a special time to be taken. Thank you for a great video!
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  • Jake Scannell 1 year ago
    Great Video!! I am getting a lensbaby composer for my 7D, will this create the same tilt shift affect? or do I need something else?
  • GAntico plus 1 year ago
    Hi Jake,
    the lensbaby composer should be enough especially if you use 2.8 aperture and shoot from top. You might need also to find interesting subjects, some things seem to work well with tilt shift effect, other won't...
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  • Joe Martino plus 1 year ago
    Hey giovanni, how did you get such good tilt-shift results? were you just using the double glass? because I thought the tilt transformer didn't work with canon dslr's
  • GAntico plus 1 year ago
    Yes, I used double glass. Why shouldn't work with Canon? (you just need Canon mount version and not the Nikon one...)
  • Joe Martino plus 1 year ago
    So you got the mini people look from just the double glass optic? yes that works fine with canon but there is another lensbaby product called the tilt-transfromer that turns a lens into a tilt shift that does not work with canon cameras do to the sensor.
  • GAntico plus 1 year ago
    Hi Joe, I've just seen the new "tilt transformer" and well yes it seems available only for Nikon lenses at moment. Anyway, I've used the Composer with works with all the Lensbaby lenses and is available for Canon mount since some years.
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  • Ashik Bhuiyan 1 year ago
    wow i didn't know that my 500d cn do such a beautiful thing!!! i was sad bcoz it's all automatic
  • GAntico plus 1 year ago
    with lens baby you have to physically change a disc in order to get a different aperture and that give you a funny escape from the all automatic 500D...
    ;-)
  • Ashik Bhuiyan 1 year ago
    thanx a lot
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  • DOMEcgi 1 year ago
    Grande
    complimenti per i video e per le lezioni.
    Nicolò Bugatto.
  • GAntico plus 6 months ago
    grazie!
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  • Antonio Iacca 1 year ago
    Gran bel lavoro Giovanni, complimenti!
  • GAntico plus 6 months ago
    grazie!
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  • M. KOTBI 9 months ago
    inspiring video..

    Congrats...
  • GAntico plus 6 months ago
    thanks
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  • Camillo Miller 8 months ago
    Walter Ruttman sarebbe fiero di te ;) tekfestival.it/index.php?option=com_filmdb&task=view&id=561&Itemid=1
  • GAntico plus 6 months ago
    :-)
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  • Sam Stiban 6 months ago
    Marvelous
    Very nice work
  • GAntico plus 6 months ago
    thanks Sam!
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  • juan gonzalez 4 months ago
    I wasn't sure if I wanted to buy a composer or composer pro, but after watching this I definitely want to buy one now. Great video by the way
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