John Christian Rosenlund, norwegian cinematographer, talks about his experience with the new Softlights’s LED product « FLAME » :“Director Erik Poppe and I have planned to shoot every scene in pure natural light. Our goal is to try and give the project a strong naturalistic and authentic look. The film takes place…
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Cinematographer Patrick Blossier; His first experience with Juliette 4×4 LED ULTRA
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A new way of lighting with extremely soft light; Juliette 4×4, 27-6300Kelvin Bi-Color prototype on K
Director of photography Patrick Blossier (AFC) just finished the feature K.O directed by Fabrice Gobert. These lights were supposed to work for one week, being a part of the set. Patrick chose to keep them until the very end of the shooting. And they became the everyday fixture. We at…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
