a brief explanation

Here's a rough drawing that I came up with to explain the difference between Full Frame still photographs and motion picture images, which are after all a succession of still photographs.

NTS - dims in mm

The difference originates from the direction that film travels through the camera's film gate.

There are complications, naturally. And there are many, many aspect ratios, as can be seen here and here. But this directional orientation explains the inherited size difference between (35mm) stills and motion photography.

last of the iris

I couldn't resist before they disappear for the year.

live! and on location

 Finally venturing out of the studio to find something other than tulips.

10 days later

Petals about to drop...

more bright-field

Using what I learned back here to preserve a rather stunning bunch of tulips.

they're on their way there

They've been found!

a set waiting for 4 characters

 

No doubt there are a slew more of these running through my photographic work. Now that it's got a name, they can be categorized and put together in a single loction. How reassuring.

waiting for an inspection

moonlight 2

02:48 EST

moonlight

snow

 

ice

       

       

       

Drooping pines on this morning's walk.

november 5

The Japanese maple that refuses to photograph - that is photographed every year.

november 2

november 1

This morning's view.

Steadicam Reel

Some of the things I've seen with my camera over the past two years learning to operate Steadicam.

Steadireel - 2013 from Man Made Wilderness on Vimeo.

return to study

The actual, captured during an evening thunderstorm, several weeks ago. Which means ALL the picture for The Plan has been completed. In fact picture edit is almost locked, and we're waiting on more sound and music.

a study

Possible location for the short film The Plan.

dark-field

during endSomewhat different than a straight dark field setup in that these were lit from the side with a pair of strobes in front of a dark background, rather than with a single strobe from behind the background. The exposure on the right has an additional small spotlight on the front of the mug in order to define the etching on the glass surface.

Interestingly, the exposure for the image on the left was an ordinary flash timing of 1/100 second @ f/14, whereas the image on the right was 13 seconds @ f/14. Because the light on the front of the mug was so insignificant in comparison to the flash, the subject is illuminated by the modelling lamps + the spot on the front of the mug.

Update on Saturday, January 19, 2013 at 05:07PM by KMW

There were several other iterations to this photograph. The one I spent the most time with was this one that uses a white reflector the exact size of the mug, which gives a consistent color to the liquid.

another during

bright-field

before afterEntirely too many How-To books around here. With enough time and dedication I'm going to become an expert at HTML, Javascript, Snow Leopard, video Color Correction/Grading, photographic lighting, motion picture lighting equipment, Cinematography, Soundtrack Pro, Final Cut Pro, CSS, Microstation, Autocad, etc. etc. Pretty much all of them are hard copy print editions, overflowing the shelves, only a few of them current.

Tellingly there are no Pop Psychology titles in the lot. DIY should not be confused with Self Help. I can't find a breakdown in the categories, but the Educational Book Publishing market in North America is worth something like $4-5 billion a year, most of that in secondary and university textbooks.

DIY is probably only a small fraction of that, but it seems I'm doing my part to keep publishers busy with new titles all the time. This work with "bright-field" strobe photography is from the inappropriately titled Light: Science & Magic - An Introduction to Photographic Lighting.