passers-by (hoogstraat)
Originally uploaded by lodrorigdzin
For a long time my work has been in between photography and video. I so love the ability to produce “photographs that move”. I may add: “photographs that have sound”. I was surprised in finding out that the snippet of music I used for this timelapse is also used for a timelapse sequence in its original context. But it all goes together beautifully and I have found that not having a static image, but a sequence is a much more natural way of working for me now.
Originally posted 2008-04-13 16:10:42.
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This is very cool, Alex. I’ve often wondered how others would feel if they saw the street as I see it with what’s left of my peripheral vision. Your series of stills in motion conveys the sense compellingly.
On my Sunday walk in the woods this morning I saw several Turkey vultures soaring above the trees. I see the motion of their flight, a characteristic visual signature that I’ve known all my life, without necessarily seeing the bird itself. Such is the continuum of sensory perception. I like the work you’re doing there.
I see that the video players here and on Flickr offer the embed code. I’d love to put it on my blog, if it is your intent to share it that way. Please let me know. Thanks!
As a photographer you’re trained in seeing the instances in a sequence of events: it’s a kind of pattern recognition I think: framing, the timing in capturing the moment: you select, single out, isolate, from time the composition that will make up the photograph. How I work now demands that I take a number of steps to get to the capturing moment: I no longer try to listen for the sound equivalent of the photographic moment. I know, or I’m guided in knowing the general lay-out of a scene, or the general properties of the environment I find myself in. I do need to be guided by companions though, so I need a briefing on where I am, and what the potential of that scene is, in terms of images. I often use a Canon DSLR and a tilt shift lens that I’ve set to full tilt: this shifts the focal plane, so that what I get in focus is a function of gesturing with the camera towards interesting motifs - picking up patterns that may make an image. I do have a habit of framing, as I’ve been around cameras a lot, but the hard work is in the editing and the post-processing.
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