David Filiberti Photography

01/25/2021

Iridescent packaging for holographic viewer for

01/25/2021

Holographic viewer in action for

01/25/2021

Iridescent packaging for holographic viewer for

04/22/2020

Cartier Aleph Project
I'm proud to present the content I shot for a holographic in-store viewer for Cartier and The Cartier Retail Innovations Lab. The project, dubbed Aleph, is a digital vitrine displaying holograms of Cartier's high jewelry; One-of-a-kind pieces with multi-million-dollar price tags. Pieces that can't be in more than 1 physical location at the same time, until now.
The first part of the project: Using 1080 hi-res stills (1 frame per 1/3-degree rotation) we created ultra-smooth and zoomable HD 360s of 6 uniquely challenging high jewelry pieces. The challenge was lighting the jewelry while keeping a pure black background and hiding all rigging because we were allowed NO retouching! Global color and density adjustments only! Unlike a typical jewelry shot, which has several lighting scenarios (lighting for metals, for main stones, for secondary stones etc.) all composited together; for Aleph each shot had to have all lighting scenarios done at the same time. This all-in-1 lighting setup had to work not only for the 1 key frame but also for the other 1079 frames needed to make the 360.
The second part of the project was capturing the caustic reflections; think of the light that sparkles on the underside of a bridge when moonlight reflects off the water below. To capture these reflections and have them sync perfectly with the jewelry I needed to capture the same 1080 frames, except with a completely separate lighting and camera set up. Using custom written computer software controlling a turntable holding the jewelry would advance 1/3 of a degree, pause for 1/2 second to allow for vibrations to settle, then the main camera and it's lighting would fire, followed by the caustic camera and it's lighting set-up. The turntable would then rotate another third and the process would repeat. Each piece took over 2 hours to shoot!
.pashkovsky @ David Filiberti Photography

04/22/2020

Cartier Aleph Project
I'm proud to present the content I shot for a holographic in-store viewer for Cartier and The Cartier Retail Innovations Lab. The project, dubbed Aleph, is a digital vitrine displaying holograms of Cartier's high jewelry; One-of-a-kind pieces with multi-million-dollar price tags. Pieces that can't be in more than 1 physical location at the same time, until now.
The first part of the project: Using 1080 hi-res stills (1 frame per 1/3-degree rotation) we created ultra-smooth and zoomable HD 360s of 6 uniquely challenging high jewelry pieces. The challenge was lighting the jewelry while keeping a pure black background and hiding all rigging because we were allowed NO retouching! Global color and density adjustments only! Unlike a typical jewelry shot, which has several lighting scenarios (lighting for metals, for main stones, for secondary stones etc.) all composited together; for Aleph each shot had to have all lighting scenarios done at the same time. This all-in-1 lighting setup had to work not only for the 1 key frame but also for the other 1079 frames needed to make the 360.
The second part of the project was capturing the caustic reflections; think of the light that sparkles on the underside of a bridge when moonlight reflects off the water below. To capture these reflections and have them sync perfectly with the jewelry I needed to capture the same 1080 frames, except with a completely separate lighting and camera set up. Using custom written computer software controlling a turntable holding the jewelry would advance 1/3 of a degree, pause for 1/2 second to allow for vibrations to settle, then the main camera and it's lighting would fire, followed by the caustic camera and it's lighting set-up. The turntable would then rotate another third and the process would repeat. Each piece took over 2 hours to shoot!
.pashkovsky @ David Filiberti Photography

02/07/2020

02/07/2020

JOHN HARDY HOLIDAY ‘19
Stylist: Rachael Blackwell
Retouch :

11/21/2019

I'm proud to present the content I shot for a holographic in-store viewer for Cartier and The Cartier Retail Innovations Lab. The project, dubbed Aleph, is a digital vitrine displaying holograms of Cartier's high jewelry; 1-of-a-kind pieces with multi-million-dollar price tags. Pieces that can't be in more than 1 physical location at once; until now.
For the first part of the project my team and I captured 1080 hi-res stills (1 frame per 1/3-degree rotation) creating ultra-smooth and zoomable HD 360s of 6 uniquely challenging high jewelry pieces. The challenge was lighting the jewelry while keeping a pure black background and hiding all rigging because we were allowed NO retouching! Global color and density adjustments only! Unlike a typical jewelry shot, which has several lighting scenarios (lighting for metals, for main stones, for secondary stones etc) all composited together; for Aleph each shot had to have all lighting scenarios done at the same time. This all-in-1 lighting setup had to work not only for the first key frame but also for every other 1079 frames needed to make the 360.
The second part of the project was capturing the caustic reflections; think of the light that sparkles on the underside of a bridge when moonlight reflects off the water below. To capture these reflections and have them sync perfectly with the jewelry we needed to capture the same 1080 frames, except with a completely separate lighting and camera set up. Using custom written computer software controlling a turntable holding the jewelry would advance 1/3 of a degree, pause for 1/2 second to allow for vibrations to settle, then the main camera and it's lighting would fire, followed by the caustic camera and it's lighting set-up. The turntable would then rotate another third and the process would repeat. Each piece took over 2 hours to shoot!

10/02/2019

Breakthrough award for Citadel Retouching by the very talented .

10/02/2019

Breakthrough award for Citadel Retouching by the very talented