[suny]

i don't know if you know the famous photo where Picasso draw something with light.
it's the same thing, bullet time style.
it's beautiful.

S.

click !!!

[Jezebel]

yeah Suny, I've seen this... its very cool. =)

[[Shizo]]

I think i know their tqchnique.
They got a bunch of cameras around the scene,
first shot they take "turning shot" without anything else in it.
then they draw things in the air while cameras are set to "long expose time"
then they get in the scene in diff poses and take a pic of themselves with all cameras at the same time.
then compose in photoshop har har har!

good guess eh?

[eyewoo]

Yeah... I've seen that site... it is very outstanding...

[Ian Jones]

hOw cool is that! it rawks! I want one of those camera setups they are so cool. I love those frozen time things.

[Cooter]

Wouldn't an easier way to go about it be,

30 camera's all synched. Open shutters on all for say 4-5 minutes, draw in the air with various light pens. Have a low light strobe/flash go off in the last couple of seconds to catch the action. And if you did it right you would have 30 pics that could pretty easily be put together like that. Only problem would be figuring out the right amount of strobe/flash to use without degrading the light trails in the image. (Oh and writing backwards..that would be hard as well.)

Hmmmm...

I definatly really really dig that though.

[[Shizo]]

I thought up a way to fake this effect without expensive camera setups.
Get some kind of circle thing and have some person no move in the middle while you go around taking a pic every now and then so you go around. And then one could render some nice pictures also this way in some 3d program and composite the two in a movie.

[Ian Jones]

Cooter is probably closer to the right technique.

[shizo]: sure that would be a good idea to composite in a 3d prog but the point of doing it with the cameras instead is so that you can capture natural media like water splashing or sparks flying, things that would be hard to render realistically in a 3d prog. Camera tracking in 3d programs is pretty cool, and as soon as i figure out how the heck to use 3dmax I will give it a go.

[KeLLuSioN]

yeah sounds about right cooter...i did something similar with glowsticks and stuff, but it was just one pic, not a movie or anything hard like that

[Gort]

Actually...to achieve the shot, you'll need one SLR, manual camera equipped with a "B" setting for the shutter, a cable release, a tripod and flash.

The camera has to be tripod mounted. The cable release will allow the photographer to open and lock the shutter open thus exposing the film to light for however long he/she chooses. Holding down the shutter with your finger is problemtatic, because the pulse from your hand will cause slight vibrations thus effecting the final image - the cable release keeps that from happening.

Open and lock the shutter. The pen light drawing ensues followed by a flash to capture the last stationary live element - as mentioned by an earlier post(Picasso in this case). The shutter is unlocked from open and closed.

The tripod and cable release are paramount to the success of this particular type of shot.