squinty eyes thingy shot

[Jonbar18]

OK I'm going to try and explain this as well as I can without sounding like a moron...


So you know how if you squint, while you're driving, all the lights from the cars and street lamps make like those vertical lines of light?

Those of you who are still living in the delusion that I'm sane... how would one go about redproducing that with a camera??

[i speak in math]

Originally Posted by Jonbar18

OK I'm going to try and explain this as well as I can without sounding like a moron...


So you know how if you squint, while you're driving, all the lights from the cars and street lamps make like those vertical lines of light?

Those of you who are still living in the delusion that I'm sane... how would one go about redproducing that with a camera??

put eye lashes in front of the lens

[ravncat]

hrm.

Maybe - if you get two mirrors, that are bendable and used them at the top and bottom of a shot, you'd need some way to hold them in place. I've managed to use a lens cap to do something like that once...

as you can see, it's a bit off. It doesn't really stretch out the top and bottom. but that was done with a lens cap held at an angle in front of the lens. Perhaps bendable mirrors in a similar manner could do what you want.




The other option I see, use photoshop. I suspect there are many ways to do it, one might be to sample the light pattern from the middle of the frame with a selection and copy, put them at the top and bottom of the image, and then stretch the selections.

[OsmosisStudios]

Ask the guys that made Sci-fi movies in the 70s: Most science fiction movies from that era had lenses that would do that as you pulled focus from one plane to another: OoF areas would "line" up and down. Its the lenses they used.

Pixar spared no expense when making WALL-E to try to mimic it in CGI. Worked pretty well if you're looking for it.

/has a BA in film he'll never use.