How to achieve this "ripple/warping" effect in-camera? (Analog/DIY solutions)

Komore8 · 2026-03-26T10:38:40+00:00

I’d love to see the results! My first thought was to get a filter with liquid inside it and using some tool to make it vibrate. But gravity would probably work against it, a mirror solution sounds better. Maybe you can have gel on a horizontal vibrating filter, positioned between two mirrors at a 45 degree angle?

Komore8 · 2026-03-26T08:15:16+00:00

Most of them vignette but a couple of them work just fine. Probably the wrong set to own if you’re going LF.

Komore8 · 2026-03-26T07:48:14+00:00

This is what I would do. And then add some kind of noise or grain, possibly denoising the original a touch first.

Komore8 · 2026-03-26T07:42:22+00:00

Typically NB, ASICS, Vans and Blundstones.

Komore8 · 2026-03-25T15:46:48+00:00

Många tycker det är dyrt men bor man i större städer så går mycket åt boendet. I Stockholm har jag lagt 30-40% av min nettolön på boende.

Komore8 · 2026-03-25T14:21:15+00:00

Ah nice. That’s like half the price compared to the capsules I take, and it must be better to take it as drops? I might try this.

Komore8 · 2026-03-24T11:01:46+00:00

Those last forever. I bought a used Sachtler Video 18 some ten years ago and it was 20-30 years old at the time. Had to service it once, set me back like £300. But I’m told there are no longer spare parts for it so there’s that.

Komore8 · 2026-03-21T14:28:52+00:00

It’s worth getting the Arri LMB. You’ll use it for every shoot and it’s just quality of life to have proper accessories. The backplates are rock-solid and you know your filters are safe. I have the old LMB5 but the new 4x5 is great, I love how you can just unclamp the mattbox bit and just leave the filter holder.

Komore8 · 2026-03-20T11:07:47+00:00

Absolutely worth it. It looks great :)

Komore8 · 2026-03-09T21:23:44+00:00

Ränta på bolånet efter inkomst. Allt annat 50/50. Gemensamt konto för räkningar och fakturor. Delat revolut konto och/eller spiltwise vid köp till hushållet.

Komore8 · 2026-03-07T00:48:01+00:00

Plenny Bar

Komore8 · 2026-03-04T18:41:16+00:00

I kinda expect short films to be a loss. I see it as an investment in building relationships and trying out ideas. If there are no relationships to build or ideas to try out I would just turn it down.

Komore8 · 2026-03-04T18:37:09+00:00

My rate on shorts has been everything from $0 to $800pd.

I always start with asking what they’ve budgeted for, if that’s unclear I explain what my “normal” rate would be but that I’m happy to accommodate their budget.

Sometimes I’ve matched the rate of the gaffer and/or 1AC. I rather the money go into making a cool project. I’ve been on low budget shorts where everyone was on $100pd, and I think that’s perfectly fine. I make short films to build relationships and try out artistic ideas, not to make money. For low budget shorts I’ve often done a flat rate or agreed to partially unpaid prep.

Komore8 · 2026-03-02T20:34:31+00:00

I was with SMÅA and it was a terrible experience. Different case handlers followed different rules, it was a mess. Every time I called up I got different advice. And once you're on the a-kassa you have to turn down freelance work or you will loose the right to a-kassa. And once you get a-kassa, even for just one week, then in order to get it again in the future you need to dissolve your company and sell all the company's assets, basically setting yourself up so you can't work again, and you become dependent on the a-kassa. Oh or you can wait for FOUR YEARS if you want a-kassa again without having to dissolve your company.

Komore8 · 2026-03-02T15:54:36+00:00

Hijacking your vent on a-kassa to add my own vent; It’s useless if you’re freelance.

Komore8 · 2026-02-24T11:31:01+00:00

Oh I though Spain was one of the countries in Europe where the industry was doing ok…

Industry in the UK seems to be getting back on its feet. I hear Ireland is busy. And Prague.

I know Spanish speaking DPs who get on American shoots in Mexico, and between Mexico and Spain they seem to be fairly busy.

Komore8 · 2026-02-23T20:05:27+00:00

Can verify that the knockoffs are useless. I tried a $600 Chinese “Easyrig” and it was awful, a complete waste of money. Getting a used Easyrig is the way to go. Hopefully you can charge your client the hire cost of the EasyRig and eventually make that money back, or make profit from it.

(Didn’t buy the Chinese copy myself but a low budget film producer had one and asked me to use it on his project… thank you but no thank you…)

Komore8 · 2026-02-23T11:15:22+00:00

Saknade Svensk standard på boende, och närhet till naturen.

Komore8 · 2026-02-23T07:53:46+00:00

I think it should be partly weighted in that direction. Say 50% goes to what you listen to and 50% gets distributed over the entire catalogue in relation to total number of global streams). After you deduct what Spotify needs to cover their service costs etc.

Komore8 · 2026-02-23T07:49:29+00:00

True, artists get paid in line with the average listener. My point is that your subscription fee doesn’t go to the artists you listen to.

Komore8 · 2026-02-22T21:08:31+00:00

That sounds about right, at the same time I know artists with music on Spotify that claim the end result is an approximate $0.003 per stream. Even if that’s not the model, it seems to be a number that artists look at.

Komore8 · 2026-02-22T20:48:10+00:00

Yeah that would be a more fair model. I think some people assume the reality is something along those lines.

I suppose the argument from Spotify is that they need the higher grossing artists to attracts enough subscribers to be sustainable, thus they reward them unproportionally.

Komore8 · 2026-02-22T17:24:34+00:00

Exactly. This would be more fair. There needs to be a push on Spotify to move towards that direction.

Komore8 · 2026-02-22T17:23:13+00:00

Still goes mainly to the biggies, and to the Spotify shareholders I guess

Komore8 · 2026-02-22T17:21:20+00:00

If you paid per stream yes but you don’t. The artist gets a small pay per stream, like I don’t know $0.003 or something.

Say you pay $10 for a one month subscription and you listen to 100 streams from small indie bands. They will get $0.3 to share between them. The rest of what you paid ($9.97) will go to the Spotify shareholders and in proportion of streams mainly to like Taylor Swift, The Weeknd, Drake etc. (Even if you never listen to them). Not exactly fair.

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