This is an extension of the work I’ve done on product shots for iscotch.ca – I used the Canon with a long exposure, and a strobe light app on my smartphone. I really enjoy being able to do these tricks “in camera” – I’m too lazy to learn Photoshop to rework an image after it’s taken. And I’ve always felt that, for example, the original Star Wars effects were the best ever, because they were real. I love computer graphics for art in animated cartoons and movies, but i don’t see the appeal of having a bunch of real people not actually looking at or touching things in front of a green screen. Is it a trick of the camera? Sure. But it’s a trick IN the camera. Those lights were actually there, that’s why the environmental lighting is perfect without having to do a bunch of math processing and waiting hours for rendering. Do all the lasers line up with the blasters? No, but that’s a user error: I forgot to account for the camera’s perspective. But that’s why these are experiments – so I can figure out exactly this sort of thing.
– – – Had to look it up…. Lame old guy…..
My communication has mostly devolved to onomatopoeia, no worries.