Camera Technique Captures New View of Space & Time 75
kkleiner writes "What if you could compress a video clip into a single image? That's what Jay Mark Johnson, an artist and visual effects director, has accomplished through the use of a special camera technique. He calls the images 'photographic timelines,' and his collected works offer quite a shift to conventional perception. Slices of photos are strung together in progression to make a single composite image of a sliver of space spread over an extended period of time."
Not New (Score:5, Informative)
They have been doing this for years... Go look at the "photo finish" of any horse race to see the same effect.
Slit Scan Photography (Score:5, Informative)
I believe we've called this "slit-scan" photography and it's been in use for just about as long as there have been cameras. In fact, this can be seen as an undesired effect called "rolling shutter" in CMOS cameras, just taken to an extreme.
Anyone interested in this topic should really check out the work done by Amnon Owed and Processing (processing.org):
http://amnonp5.wordpress.com/2011/01/16/eternalism-the-art-of-slitscanning/
Photo Finish (Score:5, Informative)
In other words, he's using a slit camera to make photo finish [wikipedia.org] images (but with the subject something other than finish lines). Technology is being repurposed for a potentially interesting effect, but not technically revolutionary.