What can augmented reality, hyperZooming and time-lapse all have in common and who cares?<\/p>\n
Growing up in the world of wet film based photography and motion pictures, creating FX was a tedious process where the mistakes outweighed the successes. When I began experimenting with digital photography in the 80’s, I thought that eliminating the darkroom would make things easier. \u00a0This turned out to be true until the late 90’s when I began to look at experimental FX which turned out to be even more complex than film. \u00a0Now computers replace the darkroom, algorithms replace processing chemicals and multiple exposures.<\/p>\n
Recently, I attended a NHRA race in Las Vegas to resurrect a ghost car shot that used to be done in camera using double exposures. \u00a0I also attempted a blur-lapse time-lapse of the crew of the Patron Funny Car rebuilding between runs. \u00a0Talking to team members, I tried to explain another concept called hyper-lapse where the camera moves during exposures creating a sequence of frames that are turned into a video showing augmented reality movements. \u00a0Words never tell the story the same as images and that is why the adage, “a picture is worth 1000 words” applies.<\/p>\n
When I became an official Getty image photographer, it was in three areas. \u00a0Still HDR photography, Video and Time-lapse. These are my listed areas of expertise. \u00a0I roll this up into a term that I call augmented reality. Or simply taking real-world images and altering them to bend the viewers mind. \u00a0My gallery is almost exclusively augmented reality. \u00a0Perhaps my most challenging area of work is time-lapse with HDR applied to each frame.<\/p>\n
The world of time-lapse is always enthralling to me and the fact that I can see real life in time-lapse makes it easier for me to create new ideas and pull them off. \u00a0One area I am experimenting with is called Hyperzooming \u00a0It requires not only moving the camera, but zooming the lens at the same time as a frame by frame exposure is done. \u00a0At 1 frame per second, it takes 900 frames to create a 30 frame per second 30 second time-lapse video. \u00a0Okay, hard to imagine, below is perhaps the finest example of what can be done applying augmented reality to the world of time-lapse.<\/p>\n
Enjoy!<\/p>\n
Bob<\/p>\n