I’m always looking for new ways to create cool things with my photography. Last week I saw a couple of really sweet photographic stop motion video of NYC by Cdow and an experimental series of Japan by Dave Lee.
I thought it would be cool to try an experimental photographic stop motion video of Vancouver at dusk highlighting moving bokeh. So I took a late night drive from China town to Kitsilano and snapped a ton of photos using my Canon Xti with the LensBaby composer & heart-shaped aperture disk. I compiled 300 images at 10fps in Adobe After Effects and then edited it with FCP.
I was a bit disappointed with the compression once I’d uploaded it on Vimeo, but it still looks pretty cool.
Aaron said on May 5th, 2009 at 5:29 pm
Pretty cool Lisa!
How did you manage to capture the images while driving? mount a tripod, handheld? cable release to fire off shots?
something different and interesting
John (Fee501st ) said on May 5th, 2009 at 5:31 pm
Wow, awesome effect! Great work!
josh knepper said on May 5th, 2009 at 5:52 pm
That was fun!
Teymur Madjderey (icedsoul photography) said on May 5th, 2009 at 5:53 pm
nicely done! love the effect of the aperture disk.
Frank said on May 5th, 2009 at 5:59 pm
Nice footage. I thought Vimeo had a volume dial, I cant find it. The highs are a tad shrill, in my opinion.
Yan said on May 5th, 2009 at 8:03 pm
Looks pretty sweet to me. Great work!
Anne said on May 6th, 2009 at 1:48 am
I think it looks pretty cool, especially with the bokeh effect. Wouldn’t have guessed it was stop motion using actual photos, by the way…
Fred Hill said on May 6th, 2009 at 8:01 am
Very cool. I have been playing a lot with bokeh as well lately. I think someone needs to upgrade to the 5D Mark II soon…. :)
jasonlmoore said on May 6th, 2009 at 10:17 am
Very cool Lisa, nice work!
f1crazed said on May 6th, 2009 at 12:55 pm
That’s amazing Lisa!
Nate said on May 6th, 2009 at 7:49 pm
Nifty, I might try one of Boston.
elijah said on May 6th, 2009 at 11:02 pm
pretty AND cool.
kyke said on May 8th, 2009 at 11:09 am
I want to do something like this, maybe the next week i´ll do my own photowalk starting 6am & finishing at 17hrs..
but how can put the pictures in the video?
Adarsh Pallian said on May 12th, 2009 at 12:14 pm
Ahhh… i love photomotions… take a look at this: http://vimeo.com/2845917
Read how I made it here: http://www.pallian.com/2009/01/15/the-making-of-christmas-jingle/
kyke said on May 12th, 2009 at 2:02 pm
@Adarsh Pallian:
Thanks Adarsh, i´ll try!
Dave said on May 17th, 2009 at 12:12 pm
Beautiful. I wish I still lived in Kits, or Canada for that matter.