Clockwork

fuzzytank: 23rd May 2005 - 20:35 GMT

ok now what is going on there?
cause its trippy

hool: 25th May 2005 - 16:29 GMT

fuzzytank: it's a composite image. everyone is in their original positions, but all from different times over a half hour period.

kobe: 25th May 2005 - 17:42 GMT

oh and also, how did you get the shots to overlap perfectly? tripod and timelapse?

elaine: 25th May 2005 - 18:03 GMT

i assumed it was a flashmob/artthing, never thought of it being hooched!

Jamie: 18th Nov 2005 - 16:23 GMT

hool: how did you do this, please elaborate. i've seen lots of parkour photograpy which seemingly uss the same technique. it's very interesting.

hool: 18th Nov 2005 - 17:14 GMT

the technique is simple. put a camera on a tripod. set it to manual focus, and set the exposure to manual as well. then shoot a bunch of frames in a time lapse. bring the frames into photoshop and use the clone stamp to copy objects from different frames into one collective frame.

in practice it can be difficult - in this image i had to overlap people on to new people, create shadows from scratch, create a few body parts from scratch as well, because there were so many cars that cut off bodies and shadows.

Peter: 18th Nov 2005 - 17:35 GMT

this has gotta be one of my fav all-time hool photos.

jack: 18th Nov 2005 - 19:01 GMT

actually its the office people from the office building in the background and they are let out every afternoon and made to walk clockwise in order to help the flow of the underground water system thru the city. the movement and tempo of their feet keep a heart type rythem to the ground. i hope that satisfies everyones insatiable appetite for knowledge and understanding. believe me they all have been staring out at last nights moon and see what i told you. now let me get back to the moon.

Jamie: 18th Nov 2005 - 20:05 GMT

Ah i see, well within my realm of photoshoppery but whether i have the patience is a whole other matter! The overlapping problems are what sprang to mind when i saw it. I wondered if perhaps it was a new adobe superfilter. I've also yet to try out the auto montage features, they look cool.

hool: 18th Nov 2005 - 20:20 GMT

it took me well over a hundred hours to make it, spread out over the course of six months. i had to stop, backtrack, and rebuild sections more than once. i learned how to use a tablet properly with this project, that helped.

i have a 3.5 foot print of this image, on kodak metallic paper, framed and hanging on the wall beside me. i love it.

Peter: 18th Nov 2005 - 21:05 GMT

the shadows are perfect. and everyone going in the same direction.

whe ni first saw this, i was sure it must have been some performance, because it looks too real to be contrived in photoshop. way to go hool!

elaine: 19th Nov 2005 - 08:04 GMT

i like the way the guy nearest the camera seems to be organising/marshalling it