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Light Art Performance Photography

Astonishing LED, Laser, and Light Photography from Hack N Mod on Vimeo.

If you’ve ever attemped long exposure photography or “light writing” in any way shape or form, then you’ll understand how truly dedicated these people are to the art form. Check out the video and there website for more stunning photos.

We’ve seen some projects featuring how to draw with light using your camera’s exposure settings, but nothing compares to this.  This group goes by the name of Light Art Performance Photography and they use lasers, LEDs, illuminated body suits, sparklers and just about anything else which emits light to construct these incredible works of art.  We’ve compiled the video above to feature their work and the high-res version is worth watching as well.

Via Hack N Mod

Light Art Performance Online Gallery

2009
05/17
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Fan Film – The Hunt for Gollum

Today I managed to stumble accross a fan film for Lord Of The Rings called “The Hunt For Gollum” and I have to say I’m not a big Lord of The Rings fan but this is a brilliant film. They only had a limited budget and none of the cast and crew were paid a cent. That means that this film exists purely because of peoples hard work and dedication with out any reward but the film it self. So because of that fact alone I would recommend you watch it now!

It is an internet only release as of may 3rd and will remain free to view for anyone interested. You can view the film here.

The Hunt For Gollum is an unofficial not for profit short film by a group of enthusiast filmmakers. As a Lord of the Rings Fan Film, we are not affiliated with the Tolkien Estate or New Line Cinema and are producing this project as an entirely non commercial film. As with other fan films we are making this purely for the enjoyment of the material and the experience of making a high quality low budget film. – http://thehuntforgollum.com

Here is some of the movie posters from there website, not to shabby ethier.

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2009
05/05
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Water Colour

So I decided to spend some time doing an expiremental video of food colouring dropped into a clear acrylic box of water. I wanted to see what would happen and the different effects that could be created and how good it would look when filmed. The effect was much better then I ever thourght it would look, please check the video to see for yourself.

In order to film it the camera was placed to look through one side of the clear arcylic box as I dropped different colour food dies into the water. I did multiple takes with different colour 1 red, 1 blue, 1 green and one take with many colours together. I then did a rough edit layering the videos together and put it all to some music.

I shot the video in 1080i and have uploaded a 720p version to vimeo, in order to watch it in HD you’ll have to head on over to the vimeo site. (links below)

The set up:

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Water Colour from Luke Brooks on Vimeo.

2009
04/26
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film
Motion Graphics
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Oil in a glass shot with a canon 450D DSLR

A test video of oil poured into a glass, shot on a canon 450D DSLR using EOS Camera Movie Recorder. You can see me adjusting the focus at the start of the video. The sharpness is really good for a DSLR that isn’t ment for shooting video! This is made possible through exploiting live view on the video camera. The software (link below) captures every frame from live view through usb from the camera stright to your computer at 848 x 560. This resolution is pretty good for a video camera that lets you change lenes and have complete control over iso and aperture.

Software can be found here: valexvir.narod.ru

A few quick iphone photos of the setup I used.

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Oil in a glass shot with a canon 450D DSLR from Luke Brooks on Vimeo.

2009
04/15
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Fluid Sculpture

Check out this amazing fluid sculpture made from surgical tubing and a water pump. The result is truly mesmerizing. Via Pixelsumo


Fluid Sculpture from Charlie Bucket on Vimeo.

2009
04/04
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Oxidizer Fractal Flame Visuals

Using Oxidizer to create Fractal Flames for visuals. Oxidizer is a free open source Fractal Flame editor for the Apple Macintosh, running OSX 10.4 or greater.

This is a test Video I made using Oxidizer. I rendered each frame as a image sequence in png format. The render from the program had quite a bit of grainy noise in it. So I batched each frame through a photoshop action to create richer colours. I’m sure I’ll be using it to create many more visual in the future.


Oxidizer Fractal Flame Visuals from Luke Brooks on Vimeo.

2009
03/30
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New Canon EOS Digital Rebal T1i (500D) Coming Soon!

canon500dThe new Canon EOS Digital Rebal T1i (as its known in America, or in Australia the 500D) will be coming soon, it should included 15.1 megapixels, 3 inch screen and 1080p HD video recording as well as a HDMI out to get all the glory on a HD TV. But the worst part is I just invested in an Canon EOS 450D about a month ago which is going strong and is a lovely camera but to be able to have all the glory of HD video and a HDMI output makes me rather jealous. I hope it’s not too soon for an upgrade.

Read – Canon Austrlia Website

2009
03/25
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Photography
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BEST TEXTURE SITE EVER!

Just found out about http://www.texturise.com

Nice free high resolution textures, what more could you ask for?

Example: Nice Red Rock Texture!

2009
03/23
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Hello world!

This is my first post. I shall start blogging! Hope you enjoy what ever I do or find!

2009
02/24
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