Wasn't sure whether to post these here or on the photography thread so I'll do both.
I took some long-exposure photo's of 2001: A Space Odyssey the other night, errr, just because. I had my camera next to me and I'd seen someone else do a similar thing with other films. Got some unusual double exposure, ghosting, trail type effects and ended up with what I think are some interesting images. Completely pointless but good fun.
I used to make allot of long exposure pictures of whatever was on television. Sometime really cool stuff happened.
Thanks man. Yeah, it's good fun. It's gets a bit boring taking pictures of my cat tbh. I'm going to do some more over the next few days. I'm thinking The Shining possibly, Herzog's Fitzcarraldo for sure, and maybe some of Kenneth Anger's Magik Lantern Cycle stuff.
WeHadNormality wrote:Wasn't sure whether to post these here or on the photography thread so I'll do both.
I took some long-exposure photo's of 2001: A Space Odyssey the other night, errr, just because. I had my camera next to me and I'd seen someone else do a similar thing with other films. Got some unusual double exposure, ghosting, trail type effects and ended up with what I think are some interesting images. Completely pointless but good fun.
Hah, not bad results. So you just had like a couple second exposure while pointing the camera at a projection of the movie? I've been wondering for a while, when taking long exposure shots like that, how do you prevent the result from ending up just overblown if not completely white?
noby wrote:Hah, not bad results. So you just had like a couple second exposure while pointing the camera at a projection of the movie? I've been wondering for a while, when taking long exposure shots like that, how do you prevent the result from ending up just overblown if not completely white?
I was watching the film through a projector in a blacked out room. On the camera I had minimum aperture (f.22), 160 ISO and shutter speed between 2-4 seconds, 3.2 for most. I had the camera on a tripod for some and was moving around for others just experimenting and messing about, shaking the camera. I took about 200 photos and whittled them down to these (oh the joy of digital!). All I did after was crop/re-size and tweak the contrast on windows photo editor.
WeHadNormality wrote:I was watching the film through a projector in a blacked out room. On the camera I had minimum aperture (f.22), 160 ISO and shutter speed between 2-4 seconds, 3.2 for most. I had the camera on a tripod for some and was moving around for others just experimenting and messing about, shaking the camera. I took about 200 photos and whittled them down to these (oh the joy of digital!). All I did after was crop/re-size and tweak the contrast on windows photo editor.
Ah so that's how you minimize the amount of incoming light while getting long good-looking exposures. Show's what I know, though the low ISO value even a novice like me could've guessed.
Treefingers wrote:Love some of those photographs. Cheers for sharing!
Thanks a lot.
noby wrote:Ah so that's how you minimize the amount of incoming light while getting long good-looking exposures. Show's what I know, though the low ISO value even a novice like me could've guessed.
Just piss about a lot and have fun. That's what it's about for me. Studying the technicalities of anything creative, although valuable, can kill some of the magic I find. I can recall all the f., aperture and shutter speeds from reading the settings encoded on the original RAW files haha!
one thing i respect about Kubrick is his ability to transcend time, nothing ever feels old or dated. his films will live on forever and will be enjoyed by people for many, many decades.
i think 2001 is by far his best movie. in my mind it was at least 10 years ahead of its time. without 2001 we wouldn't have sci classics like alien, star wars or THX 1138 (who else here likes THX btw?)
HAL9000 still freaks me out to this day "I'm afraid"
The Telepathic Kid wrote:Watched Dr Strangelove last night, absolutely hilarious.
I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.
“The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.”
― Ram Dass
(who else here likes THX btw?) 
