http://petapixel.com/2013/04/09/colorful-long-exposure-photos-of-glow-sticks-dropped-into-waterfalls/

FIELD DAY

There was an instillation tent at Field Day, it consisted of a round tent with a screen going all the way around the walls and it had some sort of video recording unit in the center. The walls replayed the movements of people in the tent and created amazing visuals just by mapping the movements. The speed of movement of each person also affected the person to their left. The whole thing was like a visual replay of cause and effect of individual and collective movement.

Chronocyclegraph

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01rwctl

Dan Arkle on the 1show, about 17mins in. 




http://www.ukclimbing.com/news/item.php?id=67984

Burbage timelapse

Intrepid Dan Arkle scaled the Peak District on his own without ropes, capturing his exact route by using long exposure camera techniques to catch his every move.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/blazing-a-trail--climber-takes-spectacular-light-streak-images-during-peak-district-trek.html#bvwBnvk 

 

When you spend hour traversing Britain's most picturesque peaks, you always want some kind of visual souvenir to commemorate your efforts.

And while most climbers opt for a standard panoramic image, bright spark Dan Arkle marked his journey with these spectacular light trails thanks to a head torch and some camera wizardry.

The intrepid 34-year-old scaled the Peak District on his own without ropes, capturing his exact route by using long exposure camera techniques to catch his every move.

Dan, from Sheffield, had to endure freezing cold temperatures as well as navigate course and treacherous rock only using minimal light available.

The stunning light trails show how traversed rugged terrain before scaling fearsome peaks and descending back to ground level again on his treacherous climbs.

Dan's stunning pictures also capture dramatic star trails thanks to his photographic technique (Caters)

The long exposure element of his photos also provides spectacular backdrops in the form of star trails across the night sky.

Dan prides himself on his ability to capture star trails within his amazing photographs.

He said: "The star trails in the sky are formed when the stars appear to move in the sky due to the earth spinning on its axis (just as the sun does).

"As the North Star (Polaris) is above the North Pole, it appears stationary and the other stars seem to move round it.

"Any exposure of longer than a few seconds will result in some star movement being captured.

While climbing a landmark known as Higgar Tor he had to climb the rock by painfully jamming his hands into cracks.

He said: "I got to the top of the first climb the rock was covered with ice.

"As I was climbing solo and ropeless, this gave me a few scary moments until I found a way round, the climbs are around 60 foot high.

"Climbing was strenuous and a little painful, but keeping my hands in the cracks also means that I felt secure.

"There was no danger of slipping off unexpectedly, but I knew I would have to get to the top before I got too tired or my hands got too cold."

Light Painting Photos of Rock Climbers Wearing Glow Sticks

http://petapixel.com/2013/04/12/light-painting-photos-of-rock-climbers-wearing-glow-sticks/ 

What do you get when you combine rock climbers, glow sticks, and long-exposure photographs? Answer: some pretty neat light painting pictures.

St. Paul, Minnesota-based photographer and rock climbing enthusiast Matt Holland was able to experiment with rock-climbing light-painting photography recently when he went climbing at night with a group of friends in Jasper, Arkansas.

All the climbers were decked out with red headlamps and bright chemical glow sticks. The glow sticks were of the bracelet/necklace variety, so they were worn on arms, legs, helmets, harnesses, and shoes. The headlamps helped illuminate the rock face while the glow sticks added colorful light trails showing the climbs.

Holland was using a Canon 7D and a 15-85mm EF-S lens, “wide open at f/3.5 and zoomed out”. To capture the exposures, he used a cheapo Canon cable intervalometer as his remote shutter release, and used bulb mode to start exposures when the climbs began and stop them when the climbers reached the top.

Exposure times for full climb photos ranged from around three minutes to around five minutes.

Here are a few of the resulting light painting photographs from the climbs:

Holland tells us he was inspired to send in these photographs after seeing our post earlier this week on photographers who dropped glow sticks into waterfalls as a light painting experiment. You can find more of Holland’s photographs from the light-painting climbing session here.

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Image credits: Photographs by Matt Holland

MoCap

Etienne-Jules Mareyen

 He developed Chronophotography in the 188O's as a way of recording several
phases of movement in one photo.

 

Time and Motion

It  soon became apparent that motion analysis could be applied usefully to the demands of the workplace where it could be used to determine the most efficient use of workers’ time and energy. This became known as ‘Time and Motion’ study.

One of the main tools of time and motion studies were ‘chronocyclegraphs’ - still pictures taken with long exposures in which motion paths are traced by small electric lamps fastened to the workers’ hands 

 

Chronocyclegraph made by Kodak Ltd, 1964. Courtesy of The Kodak Archive at the British Library

http://www.nationalmediamuseum.org.uk/PlanAVisit/Exhibitions/IntheBlinkofanEye/Overview.aspx

SEE THE INVISIBLE

Can you see a flying bullet, or a flower opening its petals to greet the morning sun?

Photography can speed up or slow down time. High-speed and time-lapse photography enable us to see events too fast or too slow for the naked eye, revealing a hidden world of extraordinary beauty.

Forms (excerpt) from Memo Akten on Vimeo.

Forms is an ongoing collaboration between visuals artists Memo Akten and Quayola, a series of studies on human motion, and its reverberations through space and time. It is inspired by the works of Eadweard Muybridge, Harold Edgerton, Étienne-Jules Marey as well as similarly inspired modernist cubist works such as Marcel Duchamp’s “Nude Descending a Staircase No.2″. Rather than focusing on observable trajectories, it explores techniques of extrapolation to sculpt abstract forms, visualizing unseen relationships – power, balance, grace and conflict – between the body and its surroundings.

The project investigates athletes; pushing their bodies to their extreme capabilities, their movements shaped by an evolutionary process targeting a winning performance. Traditionally a form of entertainment in todays society with an overpowering competitive edge, the disciplines are deconstructed and interrogated from an exclusively mechanical and aesthetic point of view; concentrating on the invisible forces generated by and influencing the movement.

The source for the study is footage from the Commonwealth Games. The process of transformation from live footage to abstract forms is exposed as part of the interactive multi-screen artwork, to provide insight into the evolution of the specially crafted world in which the athletes were placed.
The video installation is currently being exhibited at the National Media Museums ’In The Blink of an Eye’ Exhibition, 9th March – 2nd September, 2012, alongside classic images by photographers as diverse Harold Edgerton, Eadweard Muybridge, Roger Fenton, Richard Billingham and Oscar Rejlander as well as historic items of equipment, films and interactive displays.

Quayola and Memo Akten – Artists
Nexus Interactive Arts - Production Company
Beccy McCray – Producer
Jo Bierton – Production Manager
Matthias Kispert - Sound design
Maxime Causeret – Houdini Developer
Raffael F J Ziegler (AKA Moco) – 3D Animator
Katie Parnell – 3D Tracker
Eoin Coughlan – 3D Tracker
Mark Davies – 3D Tracking Supervisor
Commissioned by the National Media Museum for the ‘In The Blink of an Eye‘ Exhibition 2012; with the support of imove, part of the Cultural Olympiad programme.
With thanks to BBC Motion Gallery and Commonwealth Games Federation
memo.tv
quayola.com
nexusinteractivearts.com
nationalmediamuseum.org.uk
london2012.com/cultural-olympiad

Quayola & Memo Akten at the National Media Museum

A revealing study of movement.

Forms

Still image from Forms, Quayola & Memo Akten, 2012, courtesy of the artists

by Quayola and Memo Akten, 2012.

Forms is a digital artwork that responds to the human body in motion. It focuses exclusively on the mechanics of movement, using footage of world-class athletes to illustrate human movement at the extremes of perfection.
Videos of athletes were processed through custom software to create evolving abstract forms that explore the relationships between the human body and its movements through time and space.
This artwork was especially commissioned for In the Blink of an Eye by the National Media Museum, with the support of imove.

Fluctuation

Vary Irregularly . Flows of Movement

Rise and Fall in Waves

Undulate

Dance

Kinetic

Catalyst

Mechanical

Speed

Automatic

Reflex

Seasons

Cycles

Series

Rotation

Rhythm

Change of Appearance

pendulum

Illusion

Sound and Light