Comments on: Not enough adjectives

Not enough adjectives

panoptican — Mon, 28 Mar 2005 15:38:09 -0800

360°, semi-panormaic, bullet-time, mega-wicked light graffiti. That is all. [via]

By: destro

destro — Mon, 28 Mar 2005 15:46:57 -0800

cool.

By: nj_subgenius

nj_subgenius — Mon, 28 Mar 2005 15:50:51 -0800

indeed.

By: nj_subgenius

nj_subgenius — Mon, 28 Mar 2005 15:52:17 -0800

as to that is all.

By: blacklite

blacklite — Mon, 28 Mar 2005 16:02:38 -0800

I have no idea how they did that, but it's awesome.

By: swordfishtrombones

swordfishtrombones — Mon, 28 Mar 2005 16:07:33 -0800

Double, but still amazing.

By: BlackLeotardFront

BlackLeotardFront — Mon, 28 Mar 2005 16:13:19 -0800

I think I know pretty well how they did it - light pen, long exposures, and a single flash at the end. Not hard but creative and interesting! Too bad the interface is so clunky - flash designers really need to get their shiznit straight... fool. Also - I'm not attacking you swordfishtrombones, I'm just curious - are there mefites who dedicate themselves solely to searching the archives exhaustively every time something is posted? I imagine sometimes they just remember it from before, but still...

By: dirtynumbangelboy

dirtynumbangelboy — Mon, 28 Mar 2005 16:14:30 -0800

blacklite: Same as the 'bullet time' sequences in the Matrix. You have x number of cameras, arranged along some sort of path around the subject. Each camera takes a picture at the same time, and then each photo is stitched together to make a moving image. Roughly. Google 'bullet time' for more.

By: panoptican

panoptican — Mon, 28 Mar 2005 16:15:33 -0800

Should have figured it would be a double. The lesson as always, don't trust Google.

By: swordfishtrombones

swordfishtrombones — Mon, 28 Mar 2005 16:18:23 -0800

BlackLeotardFront: I didn't want to sound as the double-post police, it just linked to the original post in case anyone was interested in the original comments/discussion. It's a couple of years ago, so not much harm in reposting it. Still pretty amazing, as I mentioned above. And no, I don't make a habit of searching the archive, this one just stuck to memory.

By: panoptican

panoptican — Mon, 28 Mar 2005 16:31:21 -0800

Something just occured to me. 360° ? semi-panormic Oh to contradictions.

By: panoptican

panoptican — Mon, 28 Mar 2005 16:31:42 -0800

? = not equal too Oh to confusion.

By: odinsdream

odinsdream — Mon, 28 Mar 2005 17:52:38 -0800

Except this isn't exactly like bullet-time, because if each camera took a single picture, you wouldn't get the sweeping line of light from each view. I'm putting my money on BlackLeotardFront's explanation. All the cameras were open for the light-writing, and a single flash was fired at the end to illuminate the person in a single pose.

By: [expletive deleted]

[expletive deleted] — Mon, 28 Mar 2005 21:18:23 -0800

This is a perfect example of why I belive photography is at its best not as a representation of exactly what we see, but showing us what only a camera can see. The artistry of the photographer is most evident when they can see something in their mind's eye, and capture it through a glass lens, or in this case, many.

By: darkstar

darkstar — Mon, 28 Mar 2005 22:13:12 -0800

I think the first time I saw something like this it was a photo of Picasso. He had traced the image of a bull in the dark with a light pen, open camera shutter, then a flash at the end to illuminate him as well. No doubt as to the provenance of the bull! This takes it one step further by adding multiple cameras for the aforementioned "bullet-time" effect. Makes me want to experiment with it.

By: scalespace

scalespace — Mon, 28 Mar 2005 22:44:57 -0800

how do they get that smooth panning action with only, at most, a handful of cameras?

By: shmegegge

shmegegge — Tue, 29 Mar 2005 00:50:42 -0800

panoptican, as another person who has trusted the wrong searches, I can only recommend using the metafilter built in search of all threads for terms related to your post. You might have to go through a lot just to find out your safe in posting, but it's more reliable. And I never saw this last time it was posted, so I think it's awesome. wicked awesome, ye wee buggers.

By: benzo8

benzo8 — Tue, 29 Mar 2005 11:31:35 -0800

Can't remember which off the top of my head, but didn't a recent Red Hot Chilli Peppers video use this technique, with static light "graffiti" in an old hotel with Keidis running around like a loon?