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I had a bit of a play with my original "straight from the camera" Flash-Boom! video.
I trimmed it to make it shorter... then I took the bit where the lightning actually hits and slowed that down, so you can see it better...
finally, I added sound effects of rain & thunder to make it sound more like how I heard it (but the camera didn't capture).
This is the first time I took photos with the specific intent of putting them into a film. It's small, and cheesy, but I'm happy with it.
For those of you that don't know, Crossprocessing is the ... uh.. process, by which you get those weird, off, almost pastel-y colors in photos. Hence the title.
Strobist: Shot with a single strobe held high to avoid big shadows on the back "wall" though I did want some to create depth and separation from the background. Two finger puppets from IKEA. Reflector to the right to fill some shadows.
Music: Rollercoaster by Kimya Dawson
A few days ago, I woke uncharacteristically early, and couldn't get back to sleep. It was around 5am and just starting to get light. Rather than lie there restlessly, I got up and wandered into my office. I opened the curtains to see the sun peeking through the leaves on the trees opposite—it was only just above the horizon and on a level with my office window. As I turned back into the room, I noticed that the sun shining through the leaves was casting an intricate pattern of shadows on the back of my office door, rippling in the gentle morning breeze. I picked up the video camera that was on my desk, sat it pointing at the patterns, and recorded the slow progression of the sunlight across the door. After about five minutes, the show was over. The sun had risen higher in the sky and the shadows faded. I turned off the camera and went back to bed.
Low perform 'Point Of Disgust' from the album Trust in Denver, CO.
"Once, I was lost
To the point of disgust
I had in my sight
Lack of vision
Lack of light
I fell hard
I fell fast
Mercy me
It'll never last
Then, in the dust
All the things
We discussed
Were thrown to the wind
So at last
We begin
'Cause we fall hard
We fall fast
Mercy me
It'll never last"
-- Low, 'Point Of Disgust'
I went down to the end of Battery Park City to record this waterfall which is on Governor's Island. I did this in response to a number of disparaging articles written about these art installations. The small minded smug little columnists poo pooed the waterfalls as "waste of money" "stupid", you can see the metal structure, they don't look like real waterfalls, one quote of my fellow transit worker was "it looks like the Brooklyn Bridge sprung a leak". While I may or may not believe these are the most interesting installations I have seen, they are interesting and on one of my evening walks discovered the real beauty of the waterfalls to me only happened at night where the light was shining through the water as it fell and you could get a sense of the majesty of water falling. It is not something new to say that moving water affects us in some primal way, hence the constant presence in so many cultures of the fountain. We love fountains, we love streams, we write praises of rivers and in Niagara we have travelers come to pay homage to the mighty falls. Water pouring over a ledge falling down in a might roar and the majesty of nature is celebrated. So why is this small effort on our behalf so reviled. I don't know, especially as our city is being raped by real estate interests both domestic and international. The poor and working class of the city are being pushed out, the fringe creative elements are forced to come to the city to ply their wares but not allowed by economics to stay here. New York is becoming a Disney recreation of the city of New York. The wealthy will live here, sipping the cream of culture but will not really taste of the ferment of creation. Typical of American arrogance, much like the old Brits who stole culture from wherever they could and put it behind glass cases in their museums.
Slightly-better scene and focus this time.
Captured with a modified Pentax OptioS at 1600x1200, frames at a 60-second interval and then exported as a movie at 30fps. The camera started at 5:30 AM, and stopped around 1 PM with a memory card error.
First movie here.
Strange Fruit is a performance group from Melbourne Australia. They were performing over the weekend in Millennium Park. Check them out- part dance, part theater, part acrobatics. They were delightful to watch!
It is amazing how these big ships can turn in their own length without tugs. This is at the top of the New Docks in Southampton, next to 108 berth
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Sometimes it gets slow at work. So slow, in fact, that the only way to kill the boredom is to obtain an IR controlled plane and send it on kamikaze runs against cow-orkers.
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Small video made with a 58 photo sequence during the nightglow presentation at 2nd Open Brazil de Balonismo, at Rio Claro, SP.
Soundtrack: Light my Fire - The Doors.
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Pequeno vídeo feito com uma sequencia de 58 fotos durante a apresentação de nightglow no 2° Open Brasil de Balonismo, em Rio Claro, SP.
Música: Light my Fire - The Doors.
Independence Day celebrations over the Charles River, Boston, Massachusetts, July 4, 2008. Video shot from the MIT Sailing Pavilion, Cambridge, Massachusetts. After the Boston Pops concert, a massive fireworks display commences. The MIT Sailing Pavilion is directly parallel to the fireworks barge, which sits in the middle of the river. I hope you enjoy watching a little of the show - it fails to capture the true sparkles of the fireworks.
In short: Best. Fireworks. Ever.
our ride through the rockaways to and from fort tilden beach. i have know of this beach for years, but have never made the trip out. mainly because i only just got a bike last year and there was little time for excursions what with berlin and poland and burning man preperations. plus back then i had a job as well. in any case, the new canon G9 combined with the ever-useful gorillapod made for a smashing bike-mounted documentation device. there is evidence of a bit of learning curve in this video. you can see the point where i figure out that mounting it in front of the basket would be far superior to a handlebar location.
This video was a bit too long, so flickr cut it off. see the full version here.
music: upwards march by bell orchestre
It's a bit shaky due to filming with one hand and steering the bike with the other.
I took some captures from this and other videos when I originally made the set.
It's my favourite sound when I walk along the seafront - the wind blowing the wires on the masts of the boats.
6.28.08. The old St Paul power plant lost a smoke stack today as it was knocked down with explosives. Had the detonation been ineffective, demolition engineers explained that officially the next step would have been to throw rocks at it.
[That's not my voice in the video.]
I was freediving around the boat a few hundred meters from the shore of Aldabra (Seychelles) when a dozen blacktip sharks were attracted by the cook dumping fish offal in the water... then one of them got quite, erh, close up and personal ;-)
... and the ideas flow. "hmmm, could I combine this and the unfiltered time lapse set by having a circular cut in the gas mask glass eye area ... and then..."
It's cliched, it's a bit dark. I sat in a field in Hampshire surrounded by oats, a stalking cat, my laptop and the camera gear and sipped cider for half an hour. Fantastic.
We spray Trouble with the hose to cool her off a bit in this hot weather. She thinks we're torturing her. And, I'm toying around with iMovie on the new Mac.
Just in case you were ever wondering, proof that she is even cuter when the pictures move. :)
Clem got to take a trip outside to explore the deck because the Sun decided that mid-June seemed a reasonable time to finally become springtime.
just 4 days old! it's so adorable. but with access to the viewing room so limited, there wasn't much time to set the camera up properly... pictures are mostly all bad.
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The "T" in Boston is nice, easy to ride, I never got lost or confused like in New York.
This short video is a 11 photos taken in sequence, at f/11 for 1s ISO400, all HDR tonemapped and aligned in Photoshop. Custom white balance applied in RAW to keep the same color on all frames.
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O "T" em Boston é legal, bem fácil, nunca me perdi ou fiquei confuso como em Nova Iorque.
Este videozinho foi feito com 11 fotos tiradas em sequencia, em f/11 com 1s de exposição e ISO400, todas processadas com HDR tonemapping e alinhadas no Photoshop. Balanço de branco customizado aplicado em RAW para manter a cor em todos os quadros.