Night of the Hunter
As a young child, I loved everything to do with dinosaurs - this was likely fueled by all the B-movies of these 'monsters' from the 1950's and 1960's. And even now, I have models of a brontosaurus, velociraptor and this Tyrannosaurus rex sitting on my desk. I have rarely photographed them as they just don't look properly real despite the intricate details in their manufacture. But because of this lack of realism, I thought this could be useful as an homage to the stop-motion animation used in these old films. This is an animated film making technique in which models are physically manipulated in small increments in individually photographed frames so they will appear to move when the frames are played back. Oddly enough, the 1966 film 'One Million Years B.C.' was on TV this morning - although infamous for the fur bikini of Rachel Welch, the film depicts an impressive stop-motion battle between an allosaurus and a triceratops, filmed by the great Ray Harryhausen.
Our fascination with dinosaurs continues to the present with the popularity of the Jurassic Park and Godzilla films with special effects far superior to the old stop-motion animation to satisfy modern audiences.
When checking out some of these old movies I was surprised to find that they were in colour, but I only remember them in black and white, hence my choice for a black and white image for this theme which provided a more 'retro' quality. I realised that when I first saw these films, it would have been on an old black and white TV!
For Macro Mondays theme 'Figurine'. Shot as a focus stack of five images, focusing on those teeth, then cropped to be within the MM size limit.
Brian apologises to all his fans, but he found the Tyrannosaur far too scary to do a photoshoot with.
Night of the Hunter
As a young child, I loved everything to do with dinosaurs - this was likely fueled by all the B-movies of these 'monsters' from the 1950's and 1960's. And even now, I have models of a brontosaurus, velociraptor and this Tyrannosaurus rex sitting on my desk. I have rarely photographed them as they just don't look properly real despite the intricate details in their manufacture. But because of this lack of realism, I thought this could be useful as an homage to the stop-motion animation used in these old films. This is an animated film making technique in which models are physically manipulated in small increments in individually photographed frames so they will appear to move when the frames are played back. Oddly enough, the 1966 film 'One Million Years B.C.' was on TV this morning - although infamous for the fur bikini of Rachel Welch, the film depicts an impressive stop-motion battle between an allosaurus and a triceratops, filmed by the great Ray Harryhausen.
Our fascination with dinosaurs continues to the present with the popularity of the Jurassic Park and Godzilla films with special effects far superior to the old stop-motion animation to satisfy modern audiences.
When checking out some of these old movies I was surprised to find that they were in colour, but I only remember them in black and white, hence my choice for a black and white image for this theme which provided a more 'retro' quality. I realised that when I first saw these films, it would have been on an old black and white TV!
For Macro Mondays theme 'Figurine'. Shot as a focus stack of five images, focusing on those teeth, then cropped to be within the MM size limit.
Brian apologises to all his fans, but he found the Tyrannosaur far too scary to do a photoshoot with.