I Invented A New Photography Technique And Created A Sad Story
I wanted my final photo series to be special. I love how creative long exposure photography style can be, but it’s too abstract on its own. I wanted to make something unique, something meaningful.
I thought about how long exposure works, the camera just keeps on recording light until I press the button again. So when there is no light, it’s not recording anything, right? What if I propped up my phone in the dark, took a long exposure photo, moved the phone away, and turned the lights back on to catch the background? That was it, I had done it! I made interesting photos of a floating hologram using just my phone. Then I thought, hey, I’m an illustrator, I can draw my own holograms, take photos of those and tell a story through these beautiful photos, create a series.
I drew my little adorable dog on Photoshop on a black background, transferred the photos onto my phone, and propped it up wherever I wanted the dog to be. Since my phone has an AMOLED screen (black pixels turn off), the rest of the screen and phone were invisible in the dark. I turned the lights back on to capture the room and voilà! After three grueling days of trial and error using my photography technique, my masterpiece was ready for printing.
Sometimes I get so excited about the technique that I forget about the sad story depicted. The story itself was inspired by my own pet, Alfred, who died in a similar, tragic way.
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Where did you come from?
What am I gonna do with you?
Hey! Bad dog!
Heh, that’s not how you do the assignment
Guess I’m stuck here
Who’s a good boy?
Come here, I got something for ya
Whatcha doing down there?
What the hell?
Oh God, no…
How could I let this happen? I just had to move the wires away…
What am I gonna do without you?
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Share on FacebookI absolutly LOVE this stile and the dog is one of the cutes thing I've seen!! (I'd also really like to know how you did the picture - how does it work?)
Well it is explained in the beginning of the post ;)
Load More Replies...So cute and a fascinating, unique look and technique (maybe you could patent it). I'd love to see it as a short animated movie
He can copyright the renderings/design of his dog character, but the technique he used can't be patented. The technique wasn't uncommon back in the days of film. Sounds like a version of "streak photography". The explanation isn't complete as there are no details on how he managed to accomplish it with a digital camera. I presume he used some specialized app.
Load More Replies...Looking at the thumbnail, I was fully expecting some ordinary light-painting. I'm was pleasantly surprised! Nice concept, well executed :)
That was beautiful. Thank you for sharing. I hope to see more of your stories (maybe happier ones?) on BP
I saw "I invented a new camera technique" and I thought, yeah, sure. My brother's photographs have been seen by hundreds of millions of people on network television, so I'm familiar with a lot of techniques of photography. This is a combination of some pre-existing ideas, but I've got to say that it seems to be a wholly original method with great results. I'm impressed. Nice work!!
I wonder what type of camera he used. At first, it sounded like he used his phone, which would have been interesting but ultimately unfortunate.
That sounds like double exposure pictures ... It's only as old as the first cameras.
Great technique! :) I guess you dont really need amoled for it to work, any lcd should do the trick.
You do need amoled, LCD works by having all pixels lit up then covering the unnecessary parts of them... Which means your screen won't be perfectly dark with all the lights out.
Load More Replies...Amoled screen addition is excellent. Well done. Both me and my partner are keen photographers & own phones with amoled screens. Needless to say we will be trying out the same techniques this weekend. I would like to thank you personally.
This is beyond adorable! <3 Also, it reminds me of the video for Fortune Faded by the Red Hot Chili Peppers, which is always a good thing. :-D
I absolutly LOVE this stile and the dog is one of the cutes thing I've seen!! (I'd also really like to know how you did the picture - how does it work?)
Well it is explained in the beginning of the post ;)
Load More Replies...So cute and a fascinating, unique look and technique (maybe you could patent it). I'd love to see it as a short animated movie
He can copyright the renderings/design of his dog character, but the technique he used can't be patented. The technique wasn't uncommon back in the days of film. Sounds like a version of "streak photography". The explanation isn't complete as there are no details on how he managed to accomplish it with a digital camera. I presume he used some specialized app.
Load More Replies...Looking at the thumbnail, I was fully expecting some ordinary light-painting. I'm was pleasantly surprised! Nice concept, well executed :)
That was beautiful. Thank you for sharing. I hope to see more of your stories (maybe happier ones?) on BP
I saw "I invented a new camera technique" and I thought, yeah, sure. My brother's photographs have been seen by hundreds of millions of people on network television, so I'm familiar with a lot of techniques of photography. This is a combination of some pre-existing ideas, but I've got to say that it seems to be a wholly original method with great results. I'm impressed. Nice work!!
I wonder what type of camera he used. At first, it sounded like he used his phone, which would have been interesting but ultimately unfortunate.
That sounds like double exposure pictures ... It's only as old as the first cameras.
Great technique! :) I guess you dont really need amoled for it to work, any lcd should do the trick.
You do need amoled, LCD works by having all pixels lit up then covering the unnecessary parts of them... Which means your screen won't be perfectly dark with all the lights out.
Load More Replies...Amoled screen addition is excellent. Well done. Both me and my partner are keen photographers & own phones with amoled screens. Needless to say we will be trying out the same techniques this weekend. I would like to thank you personally.
This is beyond adorable! <3 Also, it reminds me of the video for Fortune Faded by the Red Hot Chili Peppers, which is always a good thing. :-D
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