Stereoscopic gifs.

As a gif connoisseur I always like to experiment with the format. I played around in my final year at Camberwell trying a technique called stereoscoping, which is otherwise known as 3D filming. Well, it's 3D filming but without the 3D glasses, it's the same idea of having two cameras representing each human eye at different distances or angles. In my instance I experimented with angles.

I first saw this technique being used in this music video and I wanted to emulate it the best I can.  I experimented with angles in the film I did at Camberwell and it can be seen here in about 06.55 being used for a dream sequence. It worked well for this cause but editing it in film format was painstakingly long and memory/RAM heavy.

I got re-acquintated with these 3D 'wiggly' gifs browsing Reddit and thought I'd give it a go again, some interesting results and I would like to do more.

(Quality may be a bit fuzzy as taken on my iPhone and I had to majorly reduce the file size)

 

An interesting thing I noticed is the timing between frames that I set. The black and white gifs have no time delay but the third and fourth have a delay of 0.1 seconds. I think the timing all comes down to the actual content - 0.1 for more scenic shots and no delay for something that is action packed and has a lot going on in both foreground and background (a gig for example). It's also important how many angles you take, the last one has 3 angles and the rest only have 2.
The more angles = less time delay you need.

Next, I'll like to try some portraiture shots, so a minor warning to my friends that I may be quite insistent of taking your picture in upcoming meetings.




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Went to Brighton, forgot I went, took some photos, here they are.

I forgot all about these photos, think I went just under a month ago. Dad was visiting a client about some print job so myself and Ma thought we'd join along for a day trip and plus we would get a chance to meet up with Matthew's (That's my younger brother, currently studying for a year in Spain incase you didn't know, how nice and informative of me eh) girlfriend Faye for a spot of Wagamamamamamama.
Lovely trip, I really like Brighton, I could see myself living there if I don't end up living in the big smoke. Lots of nice small shops and pubs, came across this little music shop where I got 2 relatively newish albums by Grizzly Bear for a tenner overall. Win. Took a few snaps along the seafront, it was a really grey and undercast day so I messed around with the exposure and aperture on my camera with some okay results - not blog worthy but a nice exercise for me. 
Note to self, should visit again soon.


Jamie

Final Throws Photos.

Final Throws @ Finnegans Wake, Ealing 06/08/2010

Here are some selected snaps I took of a couple of really good friends' band.This sounds a bit fruity/pretentious but I intentionally went for some abstract shots. I wanted to capture the energy and feel of the band that you could only really get from a live performance. I find quite a lot of gig photography is very samey and there's plenty of room for experimental and artistic photography within, rather than a documentation of the event. I didn't use a flash at all and used slow shutter speeds, night time settings, and portrait settings to get some softer tones.

Jamie