On the seventeenth day of the Russo-Ukrainian war, Ukrainian President Zelenskiy, who has been focusing on "war or flight", once again released the latest selfie video to prove that he has been sticking to the capital Kiev and has never escaped.
"We are a people of wisdom, a mighty Ukraine, and it has been 17 days since the war, but we have not yet fallen, and I and the fighters have been sticking to Kiev and living and dying here!"
Apparently, Zelenskiy released this video of his speech to reassure the outside world:
Instead of fleeing to neighboring countries or other safe places, he fought in the most dangerous Kiev theater. However, it is this speech video that has once again triggered a huge controversy over the "cutout special effects".
Because from the picture point of view, the background of this video is very serious, the focus of the photography falls on Zelenskiy, and the background behind it, including the Ukrainian flag and the desk, is indeed like a special effects screen.
"This depth of field bokeh looks too fake, if it is not a cutout, how can it have this effect."
"It's definitely about recording a video of a speech in front of a green screen and then compositing the background."
"I don't understand why the background is blurred to such an exaggerated degree? To highlight Zelenskiy's image of the great shore? ”
Some netizens are very curious:
"A country is at war, and its president has never summoned a general to a meeting to direct the battle, has not taken to the streets to participate in the battle, and every day he is taking selfies, tweeting, posting pictures of the video, which is also very strange." 」
There are also photographers who analyze from a professional point of view:
If in ordinary shooting, to make the background bokeh into this look, the camera's aperture must be opened very large, it is estimated that F2.8 is not enough to use F1.4, F1.8.
However, this will cause the sharp range of the object captured by the lens to be quite small, and as long as the foreground person shakes slightly, it will appear blurred. For example, there is a situation where the head is very clear, but the ears are very blurry.
However, this situation is not seen at all in this video, so everyone thinks it is very strange.
In fact, since the outbreak of the Russo-Ukrainian War, there has been a constant debate about whether Zelenskiy "escaped".
In order to dispel these doubts, Zelenskiy himself released a large number of selfie videos every day to show that he was still fighting in Kiev and did not become a "deserter".
Zelenskiy even set up a self-film group to let people shoot small videos of themselves in Kiev every day.
Scenes were filmed from indoors to outdoors, from the Presidential Palace to street fortifications.
The types of shooting are also very diverse, from individual speeches to street talks to group appearances.
The reason why so many selfie videos were released, Zelenskiy's only appeal is to prove to the international community:
I didn't become a deserter!
But the more Zelenskiy posted selfies, the more questions he raised.
Every day, there are even spontaneous analysis groups set up by photography enthusiasts on the Internet to conduct technical analysis of Zelenskiy's selfie videos.
Some of these analyses are from the review of PS technology to check the authenticity of the video, and some are from the light illumination effect to check whether the keying is made.
In the end, most people's analysis concludes that:
At least 60% of these selfie videos are composited through green screen keying.
In other words, Zelenskiy's painstaking selfie videos cannot really prove that he is not a "deserter".
This time, the latest speech video, due to the extremely exaggerated depth of background, also did not calm the controversy, but caused greater controversy.
What is your view on this matter?