Camera Toss / Discuss

clickykbd    says:

Do it here in this tread:

I finally have enough tossing done to create a photo set. Most of it is low tossing at night near light sources.

Edit:
{set no longer exists, broken up into sets based on tossing location}

About my efforts. My first full night of tossing experimentation. All of these shots were taken either on the porch of a decoratively lit coffeeshop, or in front of a red/yellow/white neon sign at the shop next door, you can even read some words in one of them.

Tosses were 1-6ft in the air, playing with different ways I can spin the camera. I did not use the timer on any of these first images, the length of the night exposure is long enough to capture alot of the camera in free-fly.

Personally, I was astounded with the results (especially considering I cannot preview in camera). I love abstract painting with light, but every camera movement/blur shot i've seen involves light sources either spinning together, or moving linearly/wavy in one direction. The nature of the directionality in camera tossing produces truely unique results, some of them quite breathtaking. I like that in many of them you can almost "feel" the way the camera was turning. Seeing the same light tracer moving across the frame in different places with variation in direction and position provides neat hints as to how the camera spun or didn't spin. The textures and directional layers are what I love in these.

Just found, picture of me taking this set! I'm in mid catch here.


Originally posted at 7:05PM, 21 August 2005 PDT (permalink)
clickykbd edited this topic 79 months ago.