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HUMAN – UNVEIL HUMAN WITH SOFTLIGHTS

 

ACCLAIMED PHOTOGRAPHER, FILMMAKER AND GLOBAL STORYTELLER

YANN ARTHUS-BERTRAND TO UNVEIL HUMAN WITH SOFTLIGHTS

Human was shot in 60 countries over the course of three years. It is a a deeply humanistic documentary film. The expression of the face was of utter importance.

The production was looking for a very soft lighting solution with superb colors. I needed to be flexible to use in both 110 and 230V and on battery.

Softlights tailor-made T5-Small fluorescent gear . We added extended barn-doors who received a Light Grid Cloth – making a Softbox of about 60×60 cm /2x2ft surface.

All lighting was done with a lighting setup where the Softlights source was placed straight above the camera, down towards the face.

Director of Photography Dominique Gentil (AFC), was the man behind the visual concept.

The film is shot with a Canon 300.

#HUMAN #YANNARTHUSBERTRAND

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Dior, Kenzo and Guerlain test their new makeup with tailor made lighting solution from Softlights

In 2015 the European cosmetics industry improved hundreds of formulas to meet new health regulations. It was vital to check and test visually if the new products were as good as the previous ones.

To make the test as accurate and precise as possible, the world leader in luxury, LVMH, needed high quality light with precise color rendering.

50 products of different brands like Dior, Kenzo, Guerlain was tested every day.

Under the supervision of Eric Guichard (A.F.C), Softlights provided the T5-Long One fluorescent fixtures, and some tailor made accessories to make the quality test possible.

about LVMH:

The LVMH group comprises 70 exceptional Houses that create high quality products. It is the only group present in all five major sectors of the luxury market: Wines & Spirits, Fashion & Leather Goods, Perfumes & Cosmetics, Watches & Jewelry and Selective Retailing. LVMH currently employs 125,000 people across the world and reported sales of 35.7 billion euros in 2015.

#Dior #softlights #makeup #makeup #EricGuichard #Kenzo #Guerlain #LVMH #Europeancosmeticsindustry

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POWERPHONE for The Quake

How often have you been in to situations where you would like to use your iPhone as the

only source of light ?

The upcoming feature “The Quake needed a light fixture with size and look as the iPhone 6, battery included, but with twice as much light as the iPhone. They wanted to use the phone – in shot – to light up a big dark room.

Softlights designed and built 3 identical phone-dummies with more then 2 times more light than a regular iPhone.

The LED that was used, has the same Kelvin as the iPhone, but used higher quality ULTRA LED with TLCI of 99.

How often have you been in to situations where you would like to use your iPhone as the only source of light

Teaser for “the Quake” ;

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Softlights LED RGBW strips on “Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets”

Lire ou relire “Valérian et les mille LEDs”, un entretien avec Thierry Arbogast et Grégory Fromentin à l’adresse :

http://www.afcinema.com/Valerian-et-les-mille-LEDs.html

“Henrik Moseid (Softlights) nous a fourni une dizaine de variateurs haute fréquence complètement flicker free, associés à des rouleaux de bandes LEDs Softlights fonctionnant en RGBW. Raccordée à la console DMX, chaque LEDimmer de Softlights nous a permis de contrôler au pourcent près en direct pendant les prises chaque niveau et couleur des décors.” Gregory Fromentin, gaffer sur le Valérian et les mille planètes de Luc Besson

 
 

“VALERIAN” and the thousand LEDS – un interview with Thierry Arbogast, AFC, conducted by François Reumont

http://www.afcinema.com/Valerian-and-the-thousand-LEDs.html

“During the month of December2015, we intensively tested the equipment intended to control the hundreds of meters of LED strips that had just been ordered for the sets. Henrik Moseid had supplied us with a dozen completely flicker-free high frequency dimmers that were attached to rolls of Softlights LED strips in RGBW. Attached to the DMX console, each Softlights LEDimmer allowed us to control the light intensity and colour down to the percent during each take.”

Gregory Fromentin, gaffer

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RGBW LED for VALERIAN, Luc Bessons USD 170MM Sci-Fi feature.

Softlights delivered DMX controlled Light for Luc Besson´s science fiction adventure “Valerian and the planet of thousand cities”.

Cinematographer Thierry Arbogast and the set designer Hugues Tissandier wanted dmx controllable colored light built into the set. Softlights provided our custom made RGBW led ribbons, and constant voltage dimmer to work with it.

We made it possible for Thierry to do advanced color changes on the entire decoration with in second, thanks to Softlights DMX controlled system.

#valerian #LED #softlights #lucbesson

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Danish Cinematographer Lars Vestergaard on Softlights Juliette LED Ultra. Now shooting «Lykkeland»

I have been avoiding LED lights – until now The expression of the human face is the most important when I try to visualize stories. LED light have not been doing a good job on the human skin. And specially, the white «nordic» skin tones. With LED, they have tendency to look plastic and artificial. And it has been difficult to mix LED with classic halogen, HMI, fire and candle light. Impressed after a test shoot I was introduced to Softlights LED Ultra by my gaffer Nicholas Messel on a test shoot. I got really impressed. We are now in the middle of the shoot of a Norwegian TV Drama called Lykkeland, and the Juliette has become one of my favorite lighting tools. The Juliette is clearly the best LED I have ever tested, in fact the only LED that have worked for me. They are also the most flexible LED I have been introduced to. Because they are super light weight, I often use them as a top light, easy to rig under the ceiling, even in a tight location. And I love the remote dimming, the possibility to mix kelvin from 2800 to 6500K, not to mention the flexibility with the build in DMX.

A real soft light To create a soft light, I need a large size lighting-surface. A lighting fixture at the size of a Juliette 4×4 could easily become too heavy and take up too much space. The good thing with the Juliette is their extremely thin and lightweight design. They take up a minimum of space on the often too tiny locations. The possibility to control the soft source of light with the snap-grid from DOP choice eliminate a forrest of flagg & C-stand and saves a lot of rigging-time. And most importantly, they work beautiful in collaboration with HMI and Tungsten lights. It is easy to get addicted to Juliette. It is a great pleasure to work with this lamps» Lars Vestergaard DFF

– Lars have three Emmy and one BAFTA winning productions under his belt.
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Last day of The Bird Catcher with Juliette 4×4 and 4×2.

It´s a Wrap !

3x Juliette LED 4×2 and 2x 4×4 where used for the last scenes at the historical Theatre of Trondheim, “The Old Stage”

Movie Bird, operated by Super Grip Morten Magnussen and his excellent crew. Boom Operator, Geir Døhlie Gjerdsjø. (Picture from a reportage on the Norwegian National Broadcast Television, NRK)

 
 
 
 
 
 
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Juliette Bi Color LED gives light to “The Bird Catcher”

All pictures are provided through the courtesy of Motion Picture Capital

Juliette Bi Color LED gives light to the new feature film “The Bird Catcher”

” I have replaced all tube, tungsten and HMI based soft sources with the new Juliette LED prototype. They are doing a great job simulating everything from candlelight to overcast daylight. This is the first time I have replaced all softer source tungsten with LED on a period film.

The reason is strictly the great skin tones, wide color spectrum and possibility to go from 2700 to 6300 kelvin in seconds” John Christian Rosenlund, Cinematographer

In our package from Storyline Rental in Oslo, we have a set of 3 Juliette 4×4, 2 Juliette 4×2 and several Bi-Color Mono Tubes. The LED lights from Softlights blend perfectly with our HMI and tungsten Fresnel package.

MonoTubes connected with great care in the ceiling by thin wire in the 250 year old house:

The tubes did a great job creating a very soft top light, matching the candle light , with-in the very tight space and low ceiling. The extremely thin and light weight soft box was designed by my excellent Gaffer Nicholas Messel and his crew. The MonoTube light gave use a freedom to shoot all 360 degrees around the table. The backlight at the end of the table was created with a MonoTube inside a Softlights reflector with egg-crate.

About The Bird Catcher:

“After being torn away from her family, 14-year-old Esther must assume a new identity in order to navigate her survival under the hostility of Nazi-occupied Norway”

Directed by Ross Clarke and produced by Motion Picture Capital.

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A great response at the Micro Salon 2017

Thank you for you fantastic response to our new LED Ultra products at the Micro Salon in PARIS. This was our first official presentation of the new Softlights LED Ultra, the Juliette and the Mono Tube. It is not to deny that we were nervous for your feedback. It was therefore a great relief to see so many smiles from the professional film and TV industry. Thank you 🙂