Light Painting goes Bullet Time.

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Hey guys, 

I just realized that I didn't even share the greatest project we did this year with you... Sorry about that. I haven't been at my best these past weeks, but now I'd like to give you the ultimate fix if you happened to actually miss seeing our light art. ;)

As this journal's title already gives away what this is about, I'm just going to spit it:

From April to July we've been working on a project with 50 (identical) cameras (Olympus OM-D E-M10) to create the bullet time effect - that's mostly known through The Matrix trilogy - but with light painting. We built a semicircle subconstruction to support the cameras and rigged it up in an abandoned place; and we painted with light. 

As simple as all of this may sound - it wasn't. Most of the time we spent on building the construction and adjusting the cameras. The actual painting part was the easiest and least exhausting. (It was pretty cold, though...)

Anyway... Have a look at the result! :)
It really is not perfect but the whole project started out of an idea we had during an event while drinking beer... So, it was supposed to be only some fun action, and turned out to become a bit more than that. Haha.

I hope you'll enjoy the video!



Much love,
Jen
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Panorama152's avatar
This looks great.  The light painting alone is already stunning, and the bullet-time effect still carries some novelty.  It was an excellent idea to combine them.  It was evidently a lot of work, but it looks to me as if it was worth it.