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He looks like a 45 year old who takes good care of himself. I wouldn’t mistake him for a younger person. Maybe it’s the hairline. I’m more curious what Jared Le

He looks like a 45 year old who takes good care of himself. I wouldn’t mistake him for a younger person. Maybe it’s the hairline. I’m more curious what Jared Leto (acting and music skills aside) does besides his veganism. He’s 50. I’m guessing it’s a decade or more of baby botox, but his face doesn’t look frozen or oddly puffy. I don’t see any neck wrinkles or hint of jowls. Of course, this doesn’t attest to the age of his organs, etc.

bruceb 4y ago
Jared Leto: Some of it natural, some work done, some makeup, some good lighting, some video "Photoshop". Video lies just as still pictures have for many years.
- Gordonjcp 4y ago
  It's hilarious that there's actually a slider in the Colour page in DaVinci Resolve, "Midtone Detail". Push it left, wrinkles get fainter, push it right, wrinkles get deeper.
  - trynewideas 4y ago
    The Beauty OFX tool is the skin-grading tool. I guess it's hilarious that skin, like any shadow-casting surface, has midtones?
    - Gordonjcp 4y ago
      I'm genuinely curious as to how it works. If a region of pixels is within a certain colour range, apply a slight blur?
      - trynewideas 4y ago
        So when you view a histogram of an image, you can break it into thirds. The middle third represents the midtones. Shadows are generally depicted to the left on the histogram, highlights to the right. In visuals, midtones are most often associated with the boundaries of shadows and highlights. If you have clearly defined shadows, midtones are what's around their edges. But they also represent a lot of the image that's neither especially dark nor light — like many skin tones. So what Midtone Detail does is adjust the contrast in areas with lots of midtones — places where there are peaks in the midtone third of the histogram. It just so happens that wrinkles on faces are midtone goldmines, so tweaking Midtone Detail on an image of a face makes wrinkles more or less apparent. If you crank the slider positive, you perceptibly "sharpen" midtone regions by increasing the contrast between shadow and highlight, which emphasizes both the depth of the wrinkle and the non-wrinkled skin. If you crank it negative, you "blur" midtone regions by reducing that contrast, effectively blurring the wrinkles (and pores, and facial hairs, and small blemishes, etc.) out. On skin that reads as "erasing wrinkles", but it can also reduce fidelity of other skin textures. Sometimes that's desired, for that uncanny valley-esque "commercial-style" smoothness, but it might not be what a filmmaker necessarily wants — that's where masking out parts of the skin, or using the Beauty OFX tool, comes in. (Midtone Detail has uses beyond faces and skin, especially for manipulating things like outdoor detail — landscape shots with shade have lots of midtones, and you might want to reduce them to emphasize a subject or increase them for a more dramatic visual. Or adjusting transitions when a camera goes from a shot where you want to emphasize midtones, like a close-up, to a shot where you don't, like an outdoor shot.)
        Gordonjcp 4y ago
        Ah, so you're just stretching or compressing the midtones "from the middle"? I guess a bit like putting an "S" curve in at just the right point.
trynewideas 4y ago
> I’m more curious what Jared Leto (acting and music skills aside) does besides his veganism. He’s 50. Paul Rudd's 53, not a vegetarian, and his diet even for filming Marvel movies isn't particularly special: https://www.mensjournal.com/health-fitness/how-paul-rudd-got-even-more-shredded-for-ant-man-and-the-wasp/ https://www.mensjournal.com/health-fitness/how-paul-rudd-got... The trick is probably: - be attractive - be wealthy - have enough of an incentive and motivation to prioritize basic fitness and skincare over doing literally anything else with your time
- tom_ 4y ago
  Step 4, roids

bruceb 4y ago

Jared Leto: Some of it natural, some work done, some makeup, some good lighting, some video "Photoshop". Video lies just as still pictures have for many years.

Gordonjcp 4y ago
It's hilarious that there's actually a slider in the Colour page in DaVinci Resolve, "Midtone Detail". Push it left, wrinkles get fainter, push it right, wrinkles get deeper.
- trynewideas 4y ago
  The Beauty OFX tool is the skin-grading tool. I guess it's hilarious that skin, like any shadow-casting surface, has midtones?
  - Gordonjcp 4y ago
    I'm genuinely curious as to how it works. If a region of pixels is within a certain colour range, apply a slight blur?
    - trynewideas 4y ago
      So when you view a histogram of an image, you can break it into thirds. The middle third represents the midtones. Shadows are generally depicted to the left on the histogram, highlights to the right. In visuals, midtones are most often associated with the boundaries of shadows and highlights. If you have clearly defined shadows, midtones are what's around their edges. But they also represent a lot of the image that's neither especially dark nor light — like many skin tones. So what Midtone Detail does is adjust the contrast in areas with lots of midtones — places where there are peaks in the midtone third of the histogram. It just so happens that wrinkles on faces are midtone goldmines, so tweaking Midtone Detail on an image of a face makes wrinkles more or less apparent. If you crank the slider positive, you perceptibly "sharpen" midtone regions by increasing the contrast between shadow and highlight, which emphasizes both the depth of the wrinkle and the non-wrinkled skin. If you crank it negative, you "blur" midtone regions by reducing that contrast, effectively blurring the wrinkles (and pores, and facial hairs, and small blemishes, etc.) out. On skin that reads as "erasing wrinkles", but it can also reduce fidelity of other skin textures. Sometimes that's desired, for that uncanny valley-esque "commercial-style" smoothness, but it might not be what a filmmaker necessarily wants — that's where masking out parts of the skin, or using the Beauty OFX tool, comes in. (Midtone Detail has uses beyond faces and skin, especially for manipulating things like outdoor detail — landscape shots with shade have lots of midtones, and you might want to reduce them to emphasize a subject or increase them for a more dramatic visual. Or adjusting transitions when a camera goes from a shot where you want to emphasize midtones, like a close-up, to a shot where you don't, like an outdoor shot.)
      - Gordonjcp 4y ago
        Ah, so you're just stretching or compressing the midtones "from the middle"? I guess a bit like putting an "S" curve in at just the right point.

trynewideas 4y ago

> I’m more curious what Jared Leto (acting and music skills aside) does besides his veganism. He’s 50. Paul Rudd's 53, not a vegetarian, and his diet even for filming Marvel movies isn't particularly special: https://www.mensjournal.com/health-fitness/how-paul-rudd-got-even-more-shredded-for-ant-man-and-the-wasp/ https://www.mensjournal.com/health-fitness/how-paul-rudd-got... The trick is probably: - be attractive - be wealthy - have enough of an incentive and motivation to prioritize basic fitness and skincare over doing literally anything else with your time

tom_ 4y ago
Step 4, roids