Showing posts with label Vincent Laforet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vincent Laforet. Show all posts
Saturday, January 24, 2009
Strengthening photo essay visual story telling
Helpless from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.
Tilt shift photography technology is 165 years old and should be hitting iphones if not already.
Simply the technique means positioning a camera in a manner that combined with a large aperture creates a shallow depth of field ( everything bar your subject is out of focus)
Well, It's in vogue again. In Time Magazine Vincent Laforet has a kick a** image that is just sublime.
Sydney photographer Keith Loutit's has pushed it a stage further mimicking video ( above) via time lapse. On my twitter I link to what one site calls 50 of the best tilt and shifts and they truly are awesome.
Two years ago I posted how to cheat it using photoshop. Here's how. It's not perfect, but the effects can be quite dramatic.
Expect to see this and others combined to up the ante on rostrum montage sequential photo essays.
Nice!
Sunday, September 28, 2008
Videos Online - future standards
It wasn't too long ago that we were crying out for a greater experience online. Constricted pipes prevented anything approaching 100kp downloads.
The magic number by technologists was 8mb download speeds, which would enable us to watch lives stream - mirroring the data rate of tvs' stream.
Livestation.com has already cracked that, with a fair few other ISPs; the experience of watching online may not quite be television but its creeping closer.
And yes whilst the two are not the same, I firmly believe the experience of watching a film at 640X480 or more outstrips 320X240.
You only have to watch an Apple trailer at different sizes to get the point or less Holly wood Studio Vincent Laforet which I came across on Angela Grant's superb videographer - posted by Dan Chung.
Or please do have a look at Hillman Curtis' new stuff who uses prime lenses to achieve such great shallow depths of field.
Consumer end, we're getting there. Most of the movies I can now post will make it around 950x540 with file sizes as low as 25mb thanks to the supreme compression in the h264 codec.
This morning I posted some of the films that reflect, I hope, a more appreciative viewing experience, as well as what I use VJ for: news, docs, commercials, long format programmes and corporates.
As videojournalism matures, full quality screen will become the norm; granted grainy news worthy images will still take pride of place, but with new camera-lens technology, the experience is about to go up several notches.
Journalism is about to get more visceral.
The magic number by technologists was 8mb download speeds, which would enable us to watch lives stream - mirroring the data rate of tvs' stream.
Livestation.com has already cracked that, with a fair few other ISPs; the experience of watching online may not quite be television but its creeping closer.
And yes whilst the two are not the same, I firmly believe the experience of watching a film at 640X480 or more outstrips 320X240.
You only have to watch an Apple trailer at different sizes to get the point or less Holly wood Studio Vincent Laforet which I came across on Angela Grant's superb videographer - posted by Dan Chung.
Or please do have a look at Hillman Curtis' new stuff who uses prime lenses to achieve such great shallow depths of field.
Consumer end, we're getting there. Most of the movies I can now post will make it around 950x540 with file sizes as low as 25mb thanks to the supreme compression in the h264 codec.
This morning I posted some of the films that reflect, I hope, a more appreciative viewing experience, as well as what I use VJ for: news, docs, commercials, long format programmes and corporates.
As videojournalism matures, full quality screen will become the norm; granted grainy news worthy images will still take pride of place, but with new camera-lens technology, the experience is about to go up several notches.
Journalism is about to get more visceral.
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