Paul Turner » Photography http://paulturner.me bits and pieces Mon, 10 Oct 2011 16:06:02 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Time-lapse tilt-shift photography http://paulturner.me/2008/12/time-lapse-tilt-shift-photography/ http://paulturner.me/2008/12/time-lapse-tilt-shift-photography/#comments Fri, 05 Dec 2008 13:32:26 +0000 Paul http://paul-turner.net/?p=73 Time-lapse photography is a technique where each frame is captured at a much slower rate than it is played back.  When it is replayed everything appears to be moving faster.

Tilt-shift photography is a technique of distorting the plane of focus of an image by tilting the camera lens and distorting the perspective by shifting the lens.  This leads to images which appear to be of miniture worlds.

Combining these two techiniques creates some interesting videos, such as the one below by Keith loutit.


Beached from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.

I found this video here at Web Urbanist.  They have a couple more examples by Keith Loutit, along with several examples of tilt-shit photography.

]]> http://paulturner.me/2008/12/time-lapse-tilt-shift-photography/feed/ 0 Viewing Flickr as a solar system http://paulturner.me/2008/05/viewing-flickr-as-a-solar-system/ http://paulturner.me/2008/05/viewing-flickr-as-a-solar-system/#comments Fri, 30 May 2008 22:13:14 +0000 Paul http://paul-turner.net/?p=6 Flickr is possibly the largest collection of public photos on the planet.  Flickr has an API which allows anyone with some programming skills to write their own programs and websites, etc using their images and data.

Yesterday I came across the http://taggalaxy.de/ which allows you to view Flickr as a solar system.  You search for an image tag and this becomes the centre of your solar system, and the most popular associated tags are the surrounding planets.

It’s another different way of exploring this vast collection!

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