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Friday, November 20, 2009

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Timelapse Motion Control

Chris Meyer | 11/20

Combining dolly moves with timelapse photography to show off my favorite region of the country.

Having made the move recently from California to New Mexico, loving to shoot both states (and points in between), and having recently bought a Canon 5D Mark II, I was happy to have recently encountered Timescapes.org, who is currently working on a film about the area - Southwest Light - which is being shot timelapse with DSLRs such as the 5D. What makes some of these scenes particularly interesting is the motion control dolly they are using: A stepper motor is incrementing the camera’s position between shots along a slide rail, combining the sensation of panning (a “dolly shot”) with timelapse - nice work.

The video above is a quick look at the dolly; the two videos below are Vimeo preview of what Tom and Timescales is doing with it. (Also visit the Mountain Light page on Vimeo for links to more “behind the scenes” videos about the shoot.)

Timescapes Timelapse: Mountain Light from Tom @ Timescapes on Vimeo.

Timescapes Timelapse: Learning to Fly from Tom @ Timescapes

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The Object

Chris Meyer | 10/05- 08:29 AM

One of most recent works was the cause of serious soul-searching over the nature of my art.

Ever have one of those pieces that you put in a drawer for a couple of years, pulling it out periodically only to shove it back in because your head wasn’t in the right space yet to deal with it? That’s the underlying story behind this piece, The Object. In this case, it wasn’t just the image I was having trouble with - it was also the text I decided to attach to the image to give it a story. But sometimes, you just have to challenge yourself.

In this article, I want to share both the technical details of how this piece came together, as well as my internal conversation over the nature of abstract art and how it relates to photography.

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Seeking to Understand

Chris Meyer | 08/20- 08:06 PM

My process for creating a mixed media piece about knowledge systems.

It’s been awhile since I walked through the creation of one of art pieces that started life as a photograph, so I thought I’d pick one of my favorites: Seeking to Understand. Although it was created a couple of years ago just after I moved to New Mexcio, the process is similar to that of many of my current works.

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