Cool Snowflake Eeffect in HKDL Show

[Sarah Magdalene]

This has to be one of the coolest things I'd ever seen. The vidographer had apparently taped a special the lens of special glasses that magically transforms all points of light into snowflakes. Gives it a truly magical feel ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbt7szht3Yc

[Randy B]

This has to be one of the coolest things I'd ever seen. The vidographer had apparently taped a special the lens of special glasses that magically transforms all points of light into snowflakes. Gives it a truly magical feel ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbt7szht3Yc

For several years they have used these lenses in glasses that are given out at the Osborn Family Lights at the studios at xmas time. One year I got glasses that had snowflake images around every bright dot, and one year they were angels. It wouldn't be hard to stick one of the lenses over the lens of a camera. The only problem that would happen is if the camera lens is larger than the lens of the glasses. A small P&S (Point and Shoot) camera would have a small enough lens, while a full size video camera or a SLR still camera lens would be much too large for the glasses to provide enough coverage. On the other hand, since the special lens material is made from a sheet of plastic it is possible that the material may be available in larger sheets or filter sizes.

Randy

[ktulu]

This has to be one of the coolest things I'd ever seen. The vidographer had apparently taped a special the lens of special glasses that magically transforms all points of light into snowflakes. Gives it a truly magical feel ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbt7szht3Yc

You can get filters for camera's that do this, cross screen or star filters are the name I believe. They hit the highlights, so if you have a subject with bright sun reflecting off something shiny, it can create that star effect on there.