anamorphic-a-day :: #72

Something wicked this way comes.

anamorphic-a-day :: #71

Drink me.

anamorphic-a-day :: #70

Dam.

anamorphic-a-day :: #69

As I was flicking through the daily photos, the laptop froze and Nuke's display temporarily showed an unintentional double exposure between two completely unrelated images.  Seemed kind of interesting, especially how the lines seemed to follow so I recreated it.

anamorphic-a-day :: #68

We're your friends.  We're not like the others.

anamorphic-a-day :: #67

It's a trap.  Well, maybe.

anamorphic-a-day :: #66

anamorphic-a-day :: #65

 Moar shallow depth of field.

anamorphic-a-day :: #64

Biodome.

anamorphic-a-day :: #63

Future old friend.

anamorphic-a-day :: #62

That moment when you wonder if your eyes need to have a recalibrated LUT.

anamorphic-a-day :: #61

Giraffes and camels stand watch.

anamorphic-a-day :: #60

Going a bit HDRI in Lightroom with Nuke for basic post stuff.  Usually not a fan of the hyped tone-mapped look but hopefully I'm getting away with it here.  Kind of.

anamorphic-a-day :: #59

Cross over.

anamorphic-a-day :: #58

Gate 65A

anamorphic-a-day :: #57

Golden state.

anamorphic-a-day :: #56

Steve and Ana's view (one of many).

anamorphic-a-day :: #55

Junk communication.

Even through my eyes the sky had a weird mauve purple thing going on.  I thought it was just my retinal blood vessels getting saturated from too much LA sunlight.  Apparently not.

Could have suppressed it in post, but thought I'd leave it in anyway.

anamorphic-a-day :: #54

Long exposure DreamWorks waterfall.

anamorphic-a-day :: #53

Be wary of the lens-flary.

Using a IR/ND30 filter and doing precisely what I was advised not to do.  Pointing it straight at the California sun.

anamorphic-a-day :: #52

Slightly frosted AM sand-rings.

anamorphic-a-day :: #51

In-flight in-prayer.

anamorphic-a-day :: #50

anamorphic-a-day :: #49

"This sort of thing has cropped up before, and it has always been due to human error."

anamorphic-a-day :: #48

Grave trees.

anamorphic-a-day :: #47

Prologue/epilogue

anamorphic-a-day :: #46

Go big or go home?  How about a light painting using the Sun.  That's pretty big.

Been meaning to do something like this for a while.  300 images of a sun rise taken at 20sec intervals. Images were then combined in The Foundry's NUKE to form the light trail caused by the arc of the Sun's ascension.

NUKE, chomped through and combined all images to make an average, and a max filtered version (where only the highest value between two adjacent images is preserved).  Then by combining those two images we get this.

The lens was a vintage Canon FD 28mm, with a 1970s era Iscorama 54 anamorphic adaptor.  The combined flaws from this old gear really became apparent, and help create the vintage mood.

anamorphic-a-day :: #45

Drawing hearts with street lights.

I had the shutter open for about 6 seconds whilst in the car in pooring rain.  Then I moved the camera in the shape of an upside down heart.  This image is the result of two such photos added together.

anamorphic-a-day :: #44

Sun is crowning.

anamorphic-a-day :: #43

Sawblade Falls.  Sounds like a horror movie, looks like this.

anamorphic-a-day :: #42

Boards of Canada meets Mulder and Scully.

NukeStudio: Clip/Track additive blending

For anyone wanting to do additive track blending in NukeStudio v10+, here's a step by step.

1.  Starting with two over layed tracks.  By default the top one takes precedence and hides the lower one.



2. Convert the top track to a blend track via the right mouse button menus.  The track header should turn blue.



3. Right mouse over the overlay clip add a BlinkScript soft effect.



4.  Expand the code section, press Clear to remove the default code.  Then copy and paste my code and hit Recompile:




5.  Switch to the Kernal Parameters tab.  Here you will be able to multiply the RGB and A of the overlayed clip, as well as separately controlling an overall Alpha and RGB gain.  Setting Alpha gain to zero is the quickest way make the clip additive.  (Note that these parameters multiply against each other.)



6. You can add other soft-effects, like transforms, other grades etc and things should behave as expected.




Please add a comment if you give this a go.  I would be interested to know if this is useful.

Cheers,

Jeff

anamorphic-a-day :: #41

Warning.  Toga/laurel wreath wearers at work in this area.

anamorphic-a-day :: #40

Homage to social isolation and moral degradation.   Or just a bleak shot of dt Vancouver on a week night.

anamorphic-a-day :: #39

Breaking from the pack.

anamorphic-a-day :: #38

Shot this subject before.  However, I thought the material and the light playing off it had a pretty interesting satin quality this time around.

anamorphic-a-day :: #37

So often my path is crossed by a silhouette of some sketchy looking character.  Perhaps my reaction should be to find another path rather than try to take a photo.  Oh well.

anamorphic-a-day :: #36

I summon the dark clouds to charge upon the retreating Sun...  From my apartment balcony.

anamorphic-a-day :: #35

Side street on the way to King's Cross Station Platform 9¾.

anamorphic-a-day :: #34

A hard drive failure and other assorted joys later, time to play catch up...

So starting in the gutter, just before an ill-fated illegal poker game spewed, violently, into the alley way.  Not really, but totally could have happened.

[full size here]

anamorphic-a-day :: #33

Playing with dioptres again but not to such a severe extent this time.  Was able to open up the aperture to f/1.4 and play with some lighting to pick out shapes and translucency...  And a lens flare ;)  Anamorphic fo' realz.

[full size here]

anamorphic-a-day :: #32

Back again trying to do macro-photography with anamorphics.  As far as I know, doing this sort of thing with this lens setup is all kinds of stupid.  Nevertheless, I think the result is quite pretty - largely on account of lovely work by the very talented Miae Kim [antige.etsy.com].

To make this happen though I had to use every dioptre I had, including ones that blatantly didn't fit, necessitating the use of packing tape.

Soooo ghetto...

anamorphic-a-day :: #31

Crow trails.  Again, another example of a picture I've been meaning to take for a long time.  About 470 separate images combined to make this singular image. Slightly lower resolution as I used the BlackMagic Cinema Camera to record the crow footage.

[full size here]

anamorphic-a-day :: #30

"The engineers were here.".  Ok, not quite Prometheus.  This is a quadruple-exposure.  Each time the tide had risen, which is how the water looks a bit like mist.

[full size here]