London Grammar just released their new video - Wasting My Young Years. One of the most interesting things about this video is that it features several bullet time shots that are not only shot on film, but are shot on 625 pinhole cameras.
So, how do you shoot 625 pinholes simultaneously? See the video and BTS after the jump. Click to continue ›
Even if you've never heard about Hamburg based studio, The Marmalade, there is a good chance you are familiar with their work. They are the studio responsible for many of the fascinating High Speed / Slow Mo footage in many commercials including Lipton Ice tea, Pepsi, Daimler, Dove and many, many others.
The studio specializes in creating incredible, slo-mo footage and they have perfected this into science.
Their main difference from other slow-mo footage is that they are using a robot called spike to control the motion and focus of any standard camera. That enable the team to precisely repeat moves that would not otherwise be possible.
Spike's extended arm has a reach of 1.6 meters. The robotic arm itself weighs 250kg. the base onto which the arm is fastened weighs about 300kg. Click to continue ›
While this short movie looks like was taken inside a single drop of water, it was actually taken with 2,000 distinct drops each carefully shot in a slightly different location with a slightly different background.
Physalia Studio created Entropy - this stop motion - high speed hybrid as a logo animation for IdN magazine. It shows a droplet falling while a card is placed behind it and lit. 320 different cards were rendered and then printed. and as the drop fell to create the animation. This is how you do it for one drop. Imagine 2,000. Click to continue ›
Manon Wethly, A photographer and designer based in Belgium explores what happens to liquids (specifically drinks) as they are thrown in the air and gain independence from their containers.
Watching her photos, really gave me a strong urge to climb somewhere tall and spill drinks. Click to continue ›
Today's HD-SLRs are capable of taking 60fps images at mind blowing resolution. But looking for their ancestors reveals that the first portable "motion picture" camera was actually based on a rifles packed not with bullets, but with a plate of film.
The design of the first Chronograph (this is how they called it) was made by French scientist Étienne-Jules Marey and debuted at 1882 by the name of Fusil Photographique or photographic 'rifle'. Click to continue ›
The Black Hole series by Swiss Photographer Fabian Oefner is nothing but black.
Mixing in colors, a fast spinning drill and no less than 6 modified strobes, Fabian gives color splashes a new twist (pun intended).
The strobes used in this shoot are not your ordinary strobes, they are modified speedlights that can be dialed down till 1/40,000 of a second which is what Fabian needed to freeze the fast splashing color. Click to continue ›
Photographer Oriol Domingo sent in this tutorial which I find very interesting. It is a poor man's high-speed trigger for shooting balloons. It is one part cable, and two parts sewing needles, but no electronics or fancy laser activated triggers. Oriol connects his trigger to the shutter port, but of course you could connect it to a strobe and get some crazy explosions.
One of the interesting techniques I hadn’t still tried until now was to capture an exploding water balloon just in the moment the plastic breaks, but the water still has the shape of a balloon. I didn’t want to invest any money in laser barriers or something similar, so I built a very simple mechanism that wouldn’t give me the perfect timing but maybe an acceptable approach. Click to continue ›
With the popularity of fashion shoots and this blog increasing interest of high speed photography, I thought it would be interesting to break down a shoot that involves both, Kamerakind were happy to assist.
If you ever thought that water drops are polite beings, just waiting for us to set up a strobe and take their picture, you could not be more in error.
It is true that usually they play nice and cooperate, but every once in a while they show their true nature to tell us, "Hey! we have feelings too!"
Photographer Corrie White has been taking plenty of water drop photographs over the years and between the regular awesome photos she found a few where the drops were just doing their thing.
More pictures and a description from Corrie after the jump Click to continue ›
I think it was in Superman 3 where Lex Luthor built a super computer that captured superman in a bubble to suffocate him. (conveniently ignoring the fact that the man of steel can walk the moon which does not have breathable air).
