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Posted on 22/09/14 11:56:18 AM |
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DavidMac
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1000 frames per second photography
This might interest some of you. Photographed by James Cowley and myself in Jaipur and Mumbai. Mostly at 1000 fps with some shots at 500 or 800 fps. Shot with a Phantom high speed high definition digital camera. A montage of what one might call moving photographs. Won't be very meaningful unless you understand Hindi, but the pictures are fun. Here Some photos of the shooting: Here Hope you like |
Posted on 22/09/14 1:37:20 PM |
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Steve Caplin
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Re: 1000 frames per second photography
Fascinating - and truly beautiful photography. Gives me an idea of what I can do with the 240 fps on my new iPhone (when it arrives). Not shot on an android phone, then? |
Posted on 22/09/14 3:41:20 PM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 5527 Reply |
Re: 1000 frames per second photography
Not quite ..... 
Shot with this. Little bit more sophisticated  |
Posted on 22/09/14 11:15:53 PM |
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GKB
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Re: 1000 frames per second photography
You get to play with some tasty bits of kit, David! _________________ You're never too old to learn something stupid. |
Posted on 23/09/14 10:31:34 AM |
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DavidMac
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Re: 1000 frames per second photography
Yep!!! 
Nowadays the gap between professional and amateur equipment grows progressively narrower. Digital cameras have truly democratised the movie making process. I think we will see some big changes in the years to come, although I suppose high end will go on getting higher and stay way beyond private reach. 35mm movie film cameras are completely out of anything but professional reach. They are truly wondrous pieces of engineering, even if bulky and heavy. Mostly gathering dust on shelves now. Such a shame. I have been shooting movie for over fifty years now and I think I have seen more change in the last five years than the previous forty five! The first professional 35mm camera I worked with was the clockwork Newman and Sinclair. Things have moved on a bit since then!! 
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Posted on 23/09/14 7:30:26 PM |
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vibeke
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1000 frames per second photography
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Posted on 23/09/14 8:44:27 PM |
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DavidMac
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Re: 1000 frames per second photography
Is there meant to be a message attached to your reply Vibeke. I am a little puzzled.  |
Posted on 23/09/14 8:58:32 PM |
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DavidMac
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1000 frames per second photography
Aha just caught it. Your message was there all the time ..... in the quote. Duh! Silly me! 
Glad you like it. It was very hard work - but great fun to shoot. |
Posted on 24/09/14 07:37:31 AM |
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tooquilos
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Re: 1000 frames per second photography
Simply stunning David. _________________ Dorothy: "there's no place like home!" |
Posted on 24/09/14 3:56:05 PM |
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GKB
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Re: 1000 frames per second photography
Just got home from a trip away so I could see the film on a sensible size screen. I've always loved both time-lapse and high-speed photography/filming. This is a fascinating piece shot in a quite fascinating (and frustrating!) country. Back in the mid-seventies I had thoughts of shooting African wildlife on 16mm cine as a semi-pro but, in the end, I stayed with still imaging. The mind boggles at the thought of trekking through what was then largely undeveloped country with all those cans of film. Now the quality of digital far surpasses what I could have achieved then and you only need a buch of memory cards rather than all those cans of film waiting to be zapped at airport security - it happened to me on a 10 day trip to the USA a few years ago - all my film was ruined by an x-ray machine. I sued the airport operator and got all my costs back but I lost a lot of good material. Nicely done David. _________________ If at first you don't succeed then skydiving is not for you. |
Posted on 24/09/14 8:08:32 PM |
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DavidMac
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Re: 1000 frames per second photography
The airport dramas and bribes (sorry contributions) I could relate ....... 
I am glad that digital has put an end to those days when customs officers stood behind you and forced their hands and arms into the changing bag along with your own to check that it really was film in the cans. I did time lapse back in the days when film cameras were specially adapted to be driven by intervalometers which were huge heavy beasts with massive batteries. Now you can do it with an app on your phone. For years Kodak's professional motion picture web site carried this piece of advice for coping with 'film safe' airport X-Rays - "DON'T!". |
Posted on 24/09/14 8:13:18 PM |
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DavidMac
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Re: 1000 frames per second photography
An Indian friend once described it to me as "The country where the totally impossible is possible and the totally possible is impossible". After fourteen years of working there and learning to love it, it is still the best description I have heard. |
Posted on 24/09/14 10:33:34 PM |
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GKB
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Re: 1000 frames per second photography
It is quite possible to simultaneously love the place and loathe it with a vengeance - although the latter sentiment is reserved particularly for the 'shoe cleaners' in Connaught Circle market in Delhi! I'm still trying to figure out why I need my passport checked by nine different people in the space of no more than 10 yards when leaving the country and why I could not get on board the aircraft unless I had a label on my cabin baggage that stated that it was cabin baggage. On balance I love the place ... mostly!
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Posted on 25/09/14 1:39:59 PM |
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srawland
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Re: 1000 frames per second photography
Very impressive. It almost makes me want to buy an Android phone. Thanks for that bit of Zebu. _________________ I'm still learning. |
Posted on 25/09/14 9:26:48 PM |
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DavidMac
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Re: 1000 frames per second photography
All changed now. New airport very friendly - mostly no forms to fill in for foreigners any longer. Although Indian bureaucracy is still the stuff of nightmares. But then I think we have ourselves to blame for teaching them that! 
From my purely personal pesrpective I get to work in the largest film industry in the world. (Three times the output of the entire USA). An industry that large has some amazing people ...... and I work with some of the best crews I could find anywhere in world. I love them! It's full of frustrations but, with time, you learn to circumvent, or at least cope with, them. |