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First entry.
A lovely abstract taken while dangling from the wrist strap.
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Here's something I made for my girlfriend that fits in this thread and was inspired by tossing. It took a few tries to get something I liked. Has anyone else tried making specific designs by moving the camera like this?
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@mabend
Yes, the folks over at "flashlight" are all about this stuff!
www.flickr.com/groups/flashlight/
Also check out the two groups linked from the description of "Camera Toss" main page.
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 -- from heyrog - (?)
Was on the home page of explore! and had the cameratoss tag. I inquired. Now it has the cameratoss-inspired tag!
Lovely. Glad this group is inspiring people to try weird stuff with their cameras.
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Whoops, stumbled upon the blog posting for the technique in this photo, definitely not tossed but lovely! Even made the blog, which i'll have to go back and make a note on now. hehe.
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Yes we are strict. Sorry.
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Fellow Flickrite vvt inspired me to try a "camera spin" (perhaps a new group idea?) myself. The first thing I could think of as a subject was the television, which produced some interesting results, e.g.:
(3 frames in one picture) (well, ok, two and a tiny piece of a 3rd)
(also 3 frames in one picture, but quite different spatially, creating some sort of weird 3D effect)
I won't pollute your "toss pool" with these, but just thought it might be, um, at least marginally interesting :) Thanks for the Flickinspiration anyway!
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describe camera spin more explicitly? obviously lots of camera movements produce neat effects, just curious which one you employed.
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unwind from a wound wrist strap
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I did that a few times. I had my camera on a string because I wasn't ready to just toss it around. At one point I took some pictures with it spinning at the end, but then I reproduced them by making the camera do summersaults instead of spinning it.
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i just took a couple of tethered toss pix. nothing post-worthy yet, but interesting.
not quite camera spin, but maybe related.
summersaults, jerks, swoops.
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obviously when you start getting creative with camera motion the varieties abound. We have a few wrist strap acrobatics in the pool too. Early folks not willing to fling their camera found this a nice compromise, but it does limit the possible motion quite a bit.
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Here's one of my cameratoss inspired shots -- I'm still playing around a lot with the ropelights.
And this one was taken of some tail-lights on the highway. Just a simple turning of the camera while my brother was driving.
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The reflection of a light in the whisky, I simply moved the camera.
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@teudimundo & copilot
nice stuff! I'm glad camera toss is inspiring others even if they are doing it cautiously. ;)
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The camera toss group has inspired me to do a few crazy things with my camera, this being one of those things:
 
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A lovely smear indeed, but not to remain in the pool.
 -- from giddygirlie
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A few that showed up in the pool clearly marked as "camera toss inpsired", but using a hand-held technique:
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Both inspired by camera toss, and just plain inspired! (Read my comments on the photo). But unfortunately not for the pool.
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In case you were wondering, yes that person is wearing christmas lights on their head!
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I've got one to share, that isn't quite a toss, more of a hand motion in front of a christmas tree...that season is coming up again soon, so you'll see some fun stuff from me again in this genre :
flickr.com/photos/wallinks/63094622/in/set-1362509/
- From Wallinks
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Thanks for sharing Erik. And indeed, the season for all this is just starting! Don't forget the related groups if your photos don't meet our pool criteria, such as:
smears
light movement
light in motion
light painting
slow shutter magic
flashlight
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What if I toss it onto a pillow or trampoline of some sort?
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I think that's fine - the key is that the camera is out of your (direct or indirect) control while taking the shot. The landing is usually not part of the picture.
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corgi has it.
Catching is entirely optional. Just as long as the equipment survives to deliver the result. Almost all of my recent stuff was not caught, but landed on my bed, this approach being due to a rather quirky camera for tossing.
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thanks for sharing josh.
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pappalicious [deleted] says:
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greetings tossers hahaha (sorry)
firstly, congrats on a great pool. love it!
secondly, id like to post a shot to this thread but ive no idea how to go about it. ive already tagged the shot as "cameratoss-inspired" as requested.
im kinda new to this. any help would be great.
thanks muchly, glenn.
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@ a moment captured
1. Go to the image you want to post here.
2. Click the 'all sizes' button
3. Select small
4. Towards the bottom of that page there will be a section of code that says "Copy and paste this HTML into your webpage:" copy the HTML...
5. ... and paste it in to your post to this thread.
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thanks mate... i appreciate the help.
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ooo nice one josh!!
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galacticnick [deleted] says:
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@galacticnick
Thanks for sharing those. Obviously working with light takes on many forms, throwing your camera just happens to be one of them.
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This wasn't exactly inspired by the idea of a camera toss, but a variety of factors caused it to emulate one pretty closely. Strictly speaking, it's not a true camera toss, as (a) it was unintentional and (b) it was tethered to my wrist strap.
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@knuckle
Ohh yeah sorry, we have another [share] thread for non-tosses, this one just came into existence because alot of people wanted to particpate after viewing but did not perform a toss specifically.
What you just posted is a perfect example for my related group (that doesn't require throwing), kinetic photography. It also has a narrow definition for the pool, but not nearly as narrow as camera toss.
I really like the green substance in this one.
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Its a close up of a smear I guess its called :)
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yetused [deleted] says:
it was a long night with my tv, my face and a camera flying through the air. these are the best shots:
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Part of a set I called "Random Acts of Color"
All use a cheap toy that changes colors as a prop. Sometimes I held the camera and moved it at random, sometimes I spun the camera by the wrist strap, sometimes I kept the camera still and tossed or moved the toy.
The set is here: flickr.com/photos/georgeowens/sets/72057594112802129/
(I may add a few more soon).
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ok, good that i found this entry here cause i did some "inspired by" pics ... not really tossing.
i updated my tags!
if you like my experiemts see the set here:
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Thanks for sharing your other light-experiments everyone. Packer Fan, your random acts of color are quite nice.
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Thanks.
There are a whole lot of cool-looking images in this thread and in the group pool.
One newer shot from my set here:
edited by admin to scale image
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@yeadon_eric. Interesting light paintings... My analysis is a stationary camera, long exposure, and hand-manipulated light source? These are always fun. I was camping with a friend recently and he was snapping off long exposure moon-light photos around the camp-fire. At one point I madly waved the stick (and glowing ember) I had been prodding the fire with around... the result was a fire tornado that eminates from the fire-pit and swallows me whole. :-)
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Tethered spin, I like the ordered sine wave effect:
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Nice one. Yeah tethered spins can be gorgeous... an animal of their own. Some of the same "fluid motion" is exhibited albeit mostly controlled along one axis.
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Definitely not a camera toss... but I have to give theblackaccount credit for creativity in the process. Showing up in the pool was a pretty good demonstration of chance photography as shot by his ceiling fan!
Here's one that caught him in the act:
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Yep... you got to be brave to cameratoss... but you can cameraspin if you are not brave enough with pretty cool results too!
Is there a group for cameratoss-inspired pictures?
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This is my own private ballerina in dreamland:
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um, me thinks this thread is being under-used... I just did a quick pool clean and probably removed half of the last 100 postings. Please try to stick to the topic folks. :-)
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I have a few photographs in this set that have been inspired by this group, and the zoom shots groups.
www.flickr.com/photos/90389964@N00/sets/72157594510166142/
One day I'll get up enough courage to toss my camera properly.
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Thanks for sharing alleroo. That's what the forums are for!
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Fun one Ana. Thanks for sharing...
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Don't forget about this thread (and "anything goes" policy in the forums) folks! The pool has been getting very cluttered with images that don't qualify as camera tosses in the strict context of this group. Share away but try to keep the pool on topic so people can learn by example.
Thanks again!
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Not a toss, just a flick of the wrist --
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These pictures are camera-toss inspired.
Here's the whole story:
The other night, I miscalculated the time the bus should come, PLUS it was 20 minutes late -
so I was at a cold, rainy, dark bus stop for about an hour. There was
no cover - I had my umbrella - and just dark pavement, rain
and lights, but I had my camera...soooo...
I took a lot of pictures. I would point my camera at some light object and press the shutter while waving and shaking it around.
If this interests you,
here are some more.
When I figure out how to take time delay pictures with my camera, I might try tossing. I'd love to see how things would turn out. This was a lot of fun.
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Those are quite nice Serakatie... and the timer function isn't really required for tossing... if you try it you'll notice that the delay between when you push the shutter and when the digital actually captures the image is enough to get it out of your hands.
What you posted is a great light play experiment. I especially like that most of it is reflected light... so what is being recorded is both the light features but also the texture of the street. Gives it a really nice painted feeling.
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Hi. I am too chicken to really get into tossing, I have done a few small tosses that sucked. But the amazing patterns spinning tosses get has influenced my light painting. I use lines on my LCD monitor as a light source and spin the camera with my hand. Here are a few of my camera toss inspired shots.
  
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Those are nice hand held light painting abstracts there jciv. Thanks for sharing. Personally, I fear i'm addicted to that fluid motion possible without hands... not sure I can ever play with in-hand light painting with quite the same enthusiasm myself anymore. Permanently stuck in this dangerous realm. :-)
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More of a flip, as fully tossing a camera is not for me.
The globes where added after.
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Swinging or spinnig your camera on a tripod produces some cool results. (I'm still working up to a camera toss above two feet.)
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Yes. Nice. Extending the point of attachment to the photographer seems to facilitate smoothing out some of the manual anomalies that would result from an exposure of the same length done in-hand. I hope you have a sturdy mount though... would hate to see camera and mount detach from tripod in mid-swing. ;-)
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So far, so good. I would throw out a friendly caution on making sure you clear you're swing arc path of objects of any size. Whipping a tripod around like a samurai can create fairly destructive speeds if an impact happened. (Sorry to hear your camera was a casualty, clickykbd--and it didn't even get the honor of being killed in action!)
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Thanks. I'll be equipped with a newish one soon that has a no questions warranty. The problem with cameras that were free to you is that they don't have any warranty. ;-)
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More often than not, I thend to keep the camera steady and toss/wave/swing/drop the colorful stuff. Safer for the camera.
These were of a pen with a glowing, color-changing top in a darkened room, then inverted in Elements for the white background.
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Nice examples of other very kinetic techniques Packer Fan... definitely safer for the camera and depending on what you are photographing and how you are moving it you can get very close to the same aesthetics as you examples demonstrate.
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@Packer Fan - Nice colors and compositional arrangements in your two light paintings. But isn't it kind of dangerous to be crawling around a darkened room - what could happen if you bumped into your tripod and knocked it over? ;-)
@clickykbd - Would you consider this technique, light painting where the camera is stationary, to be a kinetic technique and therefore appropriate for the Kinetic Photography pool? Or, is the Kinetic category reserved for photographs taken where the camera is moving?
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I would say that, since the camera is steady, it is not a kinetic photo. Nevertheless these photos are amazingly nice ;-)
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@mtnrockdhh...
Initially I was trying to encourage more camera based kinetics (other than throwing) with that group... but having not maintained it very closely the pool broadened to whatever that concept meant for everyone... so yes, it would be fine in that pool as it exists now, and there are many examples of such things in there already I think.
@ferro
I would suggest the broad definition of kinetic photography simply meaning "having to do with motion" and ideally where the motion itself is the subject, and not simply an effect in a larger composition... kinetics derived from physics is simply a subset of the genre. I think I posted something to that effect recently in the group forums over there.
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I did this one before I found this group or had even heard of camera tossing, I did it by waving my camera at the pub at the back of my house.
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There's no way I'm going to actually THROW my camera.
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here's one from me :-)
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@clickykbd - I see your point ;-)
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Intergalactic Hussy [deleted] says:
Movement while walking. The camera didn't leave my hand, but I was walking! I like my camera, lol.
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Held with a camera strap, this is an inverted fairy light!
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an an un-inverted one...
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Intergalactic Hussy [deleted] says:
I moved the camera back and forth while taking a picture of a long hallway.
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Not actually a camera toss. More of a camera wiggle.
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krrymarie [deleted] says:
A camera shake of my dog fred!
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ren | www.haoyuanren.com [deleted] says:
this image was made by swinging the camera around.
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Intergalactic Hussy [deleted] says:
This was more of a camera move:
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Traffic lights in Los Gatos..first time messing around with long exposure
Added the ripple effect in photoshop
This was taken a few shots after that one but saturated it and added the spin effect (?) in photoshop
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Nice creations Brittany_G, thanks for sharing.
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Hi,
this is using the camera strap.
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A zooming camera float move. It's a bicycle shop. Look closely and you'll see the words, "BIG BIKE SALE".
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Intergalactic Hussy [deleted] says:
Inspired by the light patterns made from tossing the camera:
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@Intergalactic Hussy - That's an interesting creation. I like the comments about stealing photos you garnered as well.
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Taken directly under a streetlight - the camera was thrown up with a spin, with the strap round my wrist. I believe that the strap was responsible for the yellow line, as the camera changed direction and angle rapidly once it got as high as the strap would allow. The purple was added via photoshop - originally it was just a slightly bluish grey.
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running backwards in front of an ond television:
spinning in the same situation:
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Just moving freehand
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unMuse [deleted] says:
I have a 3 ft fiber optic christmas tree in my dining room and have been playing around A LOT with it.
This one was handheld, not thrown, and I made very tight cirlces in front of the tree.
same tree. hand held with 3 separate movements on candlelight mode on the point and shoot, making the swipe and 2 opposing "candy cane-ish" patterns.
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相片好漂亮
Pretty good photos
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tiny lights are key! some great looking photos in this group
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Camera swinging, suspended from the large shoulder strap. I was having fun making the images and then I re-read the rules of the group and saw that it is not good enough to suspend and swing the camera. Soooo, here is one for this thread to collect as "inspired by":
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