Working on lens flare

I was wondering how to achieve the same beautiful effect you get thanks the VideoCopilot plugin Optical Flare, without having to actually buy that..
searching on Vimeo I found this very nice tutorial that explains exactly that.

This is what I managed to achieve, tweaking a little bit..

original plate

after lens flare and color grading

So.. hope you like and, especially, hope to be soon able to upload the whole video.
I'm afraid, anyway, that it will take some time.. still have to record all the sound FX and there is still no music at all..

Long time

Hi everybody. Back after a very loooong time.
I've been in US for three weeks and came back with lot of nice photos of textures that I'll be publishing in a few days. Then I worked for some other multicamera editings.. too much boring to do this again in a future so I've decided to quit this business.

Now, I'm planning some real serious studyings for the next weeks and I'd like to share with u some titles I recently discovered and, in some cases, even bought :)

First of all:
- Maya Studio Projects: Dynamics, Todd Palamar. Bought. Seems really interesting. I'll tell u how it is in a few days.
- The VES handbook (...). Bought. It's huge.. and seems awesome!! But I'll need a longer time to read it XD
And last but not least:
- Introduction to Maya Fluid Effect (DVD), Wayne Hollingsworth from Gnomon Workshop. I don't have this one, but saw some works of the author and seems really interesting.


So. Stay tuned.

Dof

Dof: depth of field.

The very first tool that photographers have to drive the attention where they want this to be in an image.

I think it even is a fisiological feature of the sight: it is impossible to look at something blurred without feeling strange and, sometimes, even feel some kind of pain.

This way, the photographer forces the audience to look where he wants them to.

This very simple video uses the Dof to drive the attention and through this read a little poetry.