What a photographer sees
May 5, 2012 09:26:42 #
An eerie interactive photography video has been catching the industrys attention recently. You may want to grab your digital camera to see what it is all about.
The video invites you into a darkroom and asks you set your camera to f5.6 with a shutter a speed of 1 second. Grab your tripod and start taking pictures of the sinister television that is shown in the video. The photographs that show up on your LCD screen may shock you! Give it a try:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=FcnUFIxsZWo
Set your camera to f5.6 with a one second exposure. Mount it on a tripod and focus it on your computer screen. Play the video in the YouTube link provided above (be sure to make the video full screen by hitting the full screen button on the lower right side of the video) and then take several exposures of the TV screen that is shown in the video. These instructions are also shown in the video in an eerie way, but just follow along.
If you follow these directions youll notice that your photographs of the television in the video have disappeared all together and been replaced by an entirely different scene. Fasinating, isnt it?
It is also a great exercise in understanding how shutter speed works. Your digital camera doesnt record the static on the TV screen but does see the refresh rate, so it exposed an image that is invisible to the human eye.
Makes one wonder how much stuff is clandestinely communicated in videos...
The video invites you into a darkroom and asks you set your camera to f5.6 with a shutter a speed of 1 second. Grab your tripod and start taking pictures of the sinister television that is shown in the video. The photographs that show up on your LCD screen may shock you! Give it a try:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=FcnUFIxsZWo
Set your camera to f5.6 with a one second exposure. Mount it on a tripod and focus it on your computer screen. Play the video in the YouTube link provided above (be sure to make the video full screen by hitting the full screen button on the lower right side of the video) and then take several exposures of the TV screen that is shown in the video. These instructions are also shown in the video in an eerie way, but just follow along.
If you follow these directions youll notice that your photographs of the television in the video have disappeared all together and been replaced by an entirely different scene. Fasinating, isnt it?
It is also a great exercise in understanding how shutter speed works. Your digital camera doesnt record the static on the TV screen but does see the refresh rate, so it exposed an image that is invisible to the human eye.
Makes one wonder how much stuff is clandestinely communicated in videos...
May 5, 2012 09:34:55 #
docrob
Loc: Durango, Colorado
Festina Lente wrote:
An eerie interactive photography video has been ca... (show quote)
makes me wonder about the "reality" of the world - it's all in the mind or is it?
May 5, 2012 09:52:58 #
It's eerie what the camera catches that human eye can't. I have found out that the scoreboards in gymnasiums cycle on and off. It's too quick for your eye to catch, but it has forced me to take multiple photos of the board if I'm trying to document score and time to make sure I actually get the shot.
May 6, 2012 10:37:45 #
Festina Lente wrote:
An eerie interactive photography video has been catching the industrys attention recently.
Wow, that's fun! Kinda' like decoding the Matrix...
May 9, 2012 22:39:09 #
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