I'm definitely on a tilt-shift, timelapse kick today and this video only inspires me more. Philip Blooms excellent break down of the making of this is worth the read and you can see the Canon cameras I've been drooling over.
Monument Valley from Philip Bloom on Vimeo.
Monument Valley from Philip Bloom on Vimeo.
I saw these Keith Loutits videos over a year ago but have been thinking about them quite a bit and had to go back and rewatch them. While some people fake the miniaturization technique in photoshop (cheaters) Keith uses a tilt shift lens and speeding up video to give the illusion of miniaturization.
I plan to do some research to figure out exactly how to do this myself but for now heres some videos, a link to keiths awesome website and his facebook page to follow his updates on his "Small World" project.
Small Worlds – Preview. from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.
Beached from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.
Bathtub II from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.
Bathtub V from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.
Small Worlds Project: Tour of Destruction. Pause while a clip is playing to share it.
Tilt Shift Video by Keith Loutit | Twitter | Facebook
We spent the past weekend with a bunch of friends out in the desert. Springtime in the desert is always special when you get that brief window of life instead of dry dusty shrubbery. Here are a few photos of my friends and some interesting macros I did of lichen. If you want to see the rest click here
Alisha
Matt
Sienna
Michelle
Sam
Liza and Alisha
Michael & Sienna
2009 hasn't been the best year for me in the photographic sense – Possibly since I've spent a good portion of my free time in the studio working on music and art. I think that may account for my complete lapse in judgment when I decided to leave my camera at home while heading out to Idaho for a Christmas break vacation. I realized the errors of my thinking when I finally found the hexagonal Hoar frost I've been itching to see for over a year now since my friend Christian showed me some photos he took of these amazing geometric frost patterns. Luckily Bill lent me his Nikon and I was able to salvage the situation (though If I had my macro lens I know these photos would be phenomenal) I'll consider this a lesson learned. You can view all the photos here if you desire
Ice Bridge
Edge of Motion
Priest Lake Panorama – Click to see in full detail
Hexagonal Ice Crystals
Crystallizing Ice Matrix
Hello everyone, Alisha and I went on a little mini-vacation in Eastern Washington and went for a few hikes – including one to one of Alishas favorite places – Emerald lake – which is a mountain lake you have to hike miles over a mountain to get to – In the summer the upper lake dries up and the lake bed is left to slowly dry leaving large cracked earth. There are also beautiful mint fields, deep emerald lake and flower filled meadows. Below are a number of the macro photos I took here and in Priest Lake Idaho.
Fractal Drying – Emerald Lake, Colville, WA
Lake Bed Composition – Emerald Lake, Colville, WA
Large Grasshopper – Emerald Lake, Colville, WA
Underlying structure – Emerald Lake, Colville, WA
Bursts – Emerald Lake, Colville, WA
Baby Frog Macro – Emerald Lake, Colville, WA
Emerald Lake, Colville, WA
Creeping Lichen – Emerald Lake, Colville, WA
Lichen Composition – Emerald Lake, Colville, WA
Emerald Lake, Colville, WA
Tree sap over chartreuse lichen – Emerald Lake, Colville, WA
Rock Lichen Ecology – Emerald Lake, Colville, WA
Throrofare Liminal Zone – Priest Lake, ID
More Lichen – Emerald Lake, Colville, WA
Shipwrex – Priest Lake, ID
Trout Lake from Above - Colville, WA
Trees - Colville, WA
After accidentally stumbling on Opo Tersers breakdown of his setup for his absolutely jaw dropping extreme close up macro photos of spiders eyes I decided to expand my set up as well because I didn't know the specific pieces I would need for a Nikon Camera so after a night of research I figured I could help with the model numbers and specific parts for other Nikon users. (Im using a d70 but this will work for any Nikon that can take the older manual lenses.)
Collection of useful macro links
Nikon Bellows – You can get a PB6 but those tend to be more expensive and I went for a "Bellows F Attachment II" which I found on ebay for 25 bucks
Nikon TC200 2x Teleextender – Doubles your focal length of most lens up to 200mm – Connects to the bellows. Paid ~40 for this on ebay – You can probably use an offbrand without too much consequence. Im just a Nikon glass fanboy.
Nikon BR2A Reversing Ring – Used to connect the reversed lens to the teleextender – cheap around 5 bucks on ebay
Nikon Nikkor 28mm f/2.0 prime wide angle lens – The fastest glass I could afford – Haven't picked this up yet but expecting to pay 150-200. The 24mm is also equally as nice looking.
Nikon SC-17 off – camera flash cord - This allows you to attach the flash to an external mount ~10 on ebay with some waiting
Ball Head Swivel Mount – The Flash after being plugged into the Camera Flash cord can be attached to the Ball Head Swivel mount which connects to the Bracket Frame. ~$15
As for the flash – I have a nearly identical flash to the one quoted on Opo Tersers page
I found an off-brand Bracket Frame which the flash connects to on Ebay. I didnt feel like paying a lot for this either so I want for what looked to be the most functional one I could find.
I will be updating as I get more information – Please contact me if any information is incorrect.
Hopefully this helps someone out there.
kris
Having a phone that takes decent pictures adds a whole new level of geekiness to my life: allowing me to take pictures of things that I see but would normally forget 2 seconds after seeing - including really cool geeky things. Below are all the images I've collected in the past two months – sort of organized by theme from geometric math nerd into music nerd stuff.
Probably a fibonacci sequence dictating the width and height of the rectangles. Seen on an album cover.
6 point star tetrahedral Cymatic image created by sending sound through 1-2mm of water.
Alisha found this spirograph set on the street and did the first version of this image.
Ice crystals at Punchbowl Falls.
Bats at the library by the amazing Brian Lies, everyone knows bats like the golden mean.
Nerd Wall Graffiti: calling out another nerd who messed up the ordering of classes & orders on his wall graffiti.
Looking at a table runner on my friend Liz & Jazzes place through a pint glass. Perspective meets refractive index.
Wicked broken plasma screen – Was tempted to buy this as art but in the end decided it was a waste of electricity.
Alisha and I were at Ikea and couldnt resist. Ideally I would go with a nice camera and explore the textures.
If you turn the indie rock cred knob past 7 you start wearing tight jeans and retarded sunglasses.
The studio session with my good buddy Rubin (starflounder)
Beau killing it at Sol Invictus. No really Beau… its DEAD you can stop killing it.
Skoi at synchromystic
Alisha loving on an Otari Tape deck.
Hello Everyone its been a while since Ive posted any photos and with spring in full effect right now in Portland I thought I would grab the trusty macro lens and see what I could find.
biotech
I love these – I don't know what they are called but they cover full trees.
Fibonacci anyone?
Horsetail growing in sand
Odd Fuzzy Pods – more here
Cherry Blossoms
Portraits of a Random Neighborhood Cat
Form over Function.
Strange Horsetail Reed – Note the semi hexagonal structure.
I decided I wanted to do a test run to see if I could find any good textures in macro photographs of soap bubbles and I had moderate sucess – there were indeed some cool photos but I had to move and focus quick and due to the lighting which was a lightbulb with tin foil behind it to disperse the light – I was only able to shoot in f2.8 which as you can see leaves a very intense depth of field. I will be making a more serious attempt at addressing all the limitations I ran into this shoot in the near future based onthis article.
view More Macro Photos of Soap Bubbles
Alisha and I had initially talked of not going anywhere or doing anything for Christmas. Somehow that slowly morphed into going to see Alishas family for Christmas. Dont ask me how I just work here. But dont get me wrong it was a LOT of fun and just what we both needed after a semester of school and work for Alisha and Non-stop work for several months for me.
Right before we left Portland got hit with a foot or two of snow and was left paralyzed for 3-4 days due to its lack of snowtrucks, refusal to use salt, and a number of other factors. My love affair for my Subaru was taken up a few more notches as we trucked all over town doing donuts in parking lots and having other forms of irresponsible fun. 84 was closed until the morning we left to goto Eastern Washington.
Before leaving I ran out to grab some photos of this pine bough which was covered in frozen snow and in fact grabbed a number of great photos.
Ice Covered Trees at Sunset on Dekum Street
Our drive up eastern Washington on 395 – You can't see it – but there is a car less than 20 feet in front of us. This is what one of my friends terms "white knuckle driving" The roads were thankfully mostly clear and free of icy patches otherwise we would have been stuck.
Dear Portland, while it was cute to see you flail under a few inches of snow you should step aside and let Spokane show you what real snow looks like. 3-4 feet!
Every time i see this picture I think "Goofball" so thats what it is. I can't tell if its the aspherical distortion or our silly smiles but we do indeed look goofy.
The name for the quality of transition from clarity in focus to a soft out of focus blur is called "Bokeh" but for this picture I wonder if it should be called BowKeh – thank you thank you I appear here every Thursday evening.
After 4 days straight of fatty foods, cookies and obscene amounts of wine, I couldn't ignore my inner nerd any longer and set up a science experiment where I tried to capture some photos of Ice Crystals – it worked out ok but given the fixed lighting and the lack of my 2x doubler I feel I was only able to scratch the surface of what is possible.
Speaking of frozen water… on our way out of Portland we dropped by multnomah Falls late at night and I set up a prolonged exposure in hopes of catching the awesomeness of the frozen waterfall… this was the best I could muster with the near total lack of light.
Thats it for this time… check out the rest of the photos here
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