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Contains Plot Spoilers -- CGI, or real photography?


That last shot where the fog reveals the lake is easily the most beautiful image I have ever seen on film. The way the fog clears is so natural and revealing without being obvious that I became obsessed with finding out if it was CGI or not.

I've been searching on Google but can't find any definitive answer as to whether computer graphics were used to create that effect (as I would imagine), or if the film is actually that way. I can't comprehend how someone could actually create such a perfect shot like that without CGI, even with hours of footage? - but I'm not a film-maker.

So has anybody read anything about this? Whether it is CGI or not doesn't lessen the fact that that image was executed perfectly, but I'm curious...

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Maybe they just used a fog machine.

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It looks like a fog machine.

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A fog machine covering that large an area, with wind? I thought that shot was filmed outdoors?

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Was thinking the same thing - it's a long time to stand filming on the off-chance. But my first thought was a smoke machine

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could be just really seamless time-lapse photography...

gregory 082408

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Haven't seen this film in a very long time, but Kurosawa did something like what you're discussing in Throne of Blood in a long conversation scene. It was pretty spectacular.

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