Stop-motion photography ain’t easy. It requires patience, patience, planning, patience, and a whole lot of patience.
So we gotta hand it to Max Tyrie and his friends — to create their stop-motion rendition of Modest Mouse’s “Missed the Boat”, they took original footage from the group, printed it out frame-by-frame on 4,133 sheets of paper, then took photos of those sheets of paper with a digital camera. Finally, they assembled thousands of photos into a four-and-a-half minute stop-motion video.
Wow. It’s not that we can’t imagine the amount of effort that went into this, we can, it’s that it’s almost painful to think about. Still, watching the result brings a smile to our face. It’s magical.
Watch the video, then check out this Photojojo tutorial on .
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July 4th is just around the corner and with that comes another opportunity to get that classic fireworks shot you’ve always dreamed of. We’ve the techniques you need to know and equipment necessary to shoot fireworks well. The methods are the same as last year. But an important point to keep in mind is that vantage point and location (especially secret locations like the one in the photo at right) are just as important as technique.
Sound familiar? If you’ve taken digital video at the beach or anywhere on a windy day, you’ve probably dealt with sound cut-outs as wind whips past your camera’s built-in mic. Modern camcorders have had wind-dampening circuitry for ages. Alas, most digital cameras still don’t.
Thankfully, Stephen Uber sent a great DIY solution to the : Make a windscreen by taping the gauze-like padding of an adhesive bandage over your camera’s mic. (It’s usually a single pinhole on the front face of your camera.) Voila! Wind noise dramatically reduced.
(A perfect mod for the so many of you told us you loved.)
Found a great camera hack recently, or come up with your own?
I’ve just watched an amazing video demonstration of two new digital media technologies codenamed and (both recently acquired by Microsoft). Seadragon is a slick and and powerful viewing system for what the presenter calls “multi-scale mediums”. That is, viewing media with both large and small details like a newspaper (headlines vs. fine print) or photographs (entire galleries vs. details of a single photo).
Photosynth is much more compelling as it can aggregate images of a single subject from various sources (all photos on Flickr tagged “Notre Dame” in the example) and combine them into a new, richer view of the environment that is more valuable than the sum of the individual photos separately. The description doesn’t do it justice. You really need to watch the video to understand what is going on here.
The presenter concludes by talking about how we now have the technology to create “immensely rich virtual models of every interesting part of the earth collected not just from overhead flights and from satellite images and so on but from the collective memory.” Simply amazing.
I don’t know if I hate cutting mats because I only do it a few times a year or if I only do it a few times a year because I hate it. If I did it more often I’d certainly be better at it which theoretically would mean it was easier for me. I mostly stick with standard, easy to find sizes. But once in a while I go off my rocker and want to do some goofy size and convince myself that it’ll be great to save a bunch of money doing it myself. I just finished cutting a bunch of mats tonight and probably saved about $100. But now I’m all grumpy. If you’ve likewise taken leave of your senses, here are some tips (to supplement the instructions that come with your mat cutter) that may help you keep your sanity:
No longer will crudely-drawn talking heads the likes of which you’ve seen on Southpark and be the sole province of animation sweatshops in Asia.
Yes friends, two enterprising young go-getters have finally cracked the code.
Surf on over to Blabberize, upload a photo of a human, animal, or your favorite anthropomorphic object, and carefully select the lower jaw with the tools provided. Next, hit record and speak some words of wisdom. A click or two later and your photo comes to life and repeats your words right back at you.
Share it with friends, embed it in your blog, you know the drill. Check out blabberized and for a taste, then get to work!
I don't know the name of this rock, but it is big. This photo is 5 photos stitched together. It prints 24x60 inches. I was reading a camping blog and someone was going to go to Pismo and it made me think of this photo and the Pelican photos I took there.
Larger images of these photos can be viewed under Pelicans on sidebar.
On Wednesday (June 13th), Yahoo! Photos began to Flickr.com and other online photo sharing sites in preparation for their September 20th closing. However, the service is effectively now if you do not already have an account or have never uploaded photos there as they are not accepting new accounts.
Meanwhile, uploads on Flickr.com are going through the roof. From June 1 to June 12, Flickr averaged about 1.5 million uploads per day. From June 13 to June 18, Flickr averaged 4.1 million uploads, a 173% increase.
Stop-motion photography ain’t easy. It requires patience, patience, planning, patience, and a whole lot of patience.
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I don’t know if I hate cutting mats because I only do it a few times a year or if I only do it a few times a year because I hate it. If I did it more often I’d certainly be better at it which theoretically would mean it was easier for me. I mostly stick with standard, easy to find sizes. But once in a while I go off my rocker and want to do some goofy size and convince myself that it’ll be great to save a bunch of money doing it myself. I just finished cutting a bunch of mats tonight and probably saved about $100. But now I’m all grumpy. If you’ve likewise taken leave of your senses, here are some tips (to supplement the instructions that come with your mat cutter) that may help you keep your sanity:
No longer will crudely-drawn talking heads the likes of which you’ve seen on Southpark and be the sole province of animation sweatshops in Asia.
