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Old 26-03-2003, 21:12   #1 (permalink)
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Idiots Guide to Abstract Photography...

Anybody in an abstract mood?
Take a nice shiny (steel) pot > fill it up with water > stick it on the cooker > set your camera on 'macro' mode and zoom in (so your camera is not too close to the heat) and get ready > start snapping as soon as the water starts bobbling - before the whole thing's boiling...
Try snapping the bottom of the pot for example... You can get some amazing abstract looking shots...
Enjoy!

My latest discovery - I get easily excited
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Old 27-03-2003, 06:45   #2 (permalink)
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Everybody at work thought i was mad the other week and I incased a miniature version of our compnay logo in ice then let it melt using time lapse on my dv camcorder and alot of hair dryer work near the end to speed thing up as I was getting bored.

Took a few hours to defrost, but the logo looks cool emerging from the ice when sped up to about 20secs
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Old 27-03-2003, 06:51   #3 (permalink)
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ice is a very nice element to use - have done some experiments for installation art... in my funky college days...
can we see the results of your ice melting logo?
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Old 27-03-2003, 07:03   #4 (permalink)
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yeah, can we see your abstract photo as well dorian ?
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Old 27-03-2003, 10:49   #5 (permalink)
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This is an untouched up version but it has been speeded up. its 7mb still in AVI format

http://www.lucidcreations.plus.com/ice1.avi
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Old 27-03-2003, 10:56   #6 (permalink)
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Nice one, I shall download tonight as I am on 56k and have other work to do at the mo.
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Old 27-03-2003, 11:20   #7 (permalink)
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Old 27-03-2003, 16:01   #8 (permalink)
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ok... ok... here they are: http://www.i-ll-i.com/temp/temp.html
(spacer gifs missing - it's only a temp page)
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Old 28-03-2003, 04:59   #9 (permalink)
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I like the last 2 very cool, I want to put together more video and random experiments on my site soon (well when i get time, a decorator nevers gets to paint his own house) I've loads of other bizzare video bits and pieces from my other half driving and me holding onto the camera looking at the road as she overtakes loads to grass blowing on a sand dune.
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Old 28-03-2003, 05:31   #10 (permalink)
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Yeah I like the last two best, Ill download the movie at lunch time
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Old 28-03-2003, 06:07   #11 (permalink)
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i like the ice video, looks really good. The photos are good too. Makes me want to do some "real" hands-on stuff, I've been relying on my machine too much recently.
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Old 28-03-2003, 07:25   #12 (permalink)
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the movie is tooo large for my 65k connection - especially when I have bloody Norton Antivirus updating itself all the time :x
will take me time to dl it...
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Old 28-03-2003, 12:09   #13 (permalink)
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If people want I could zip it up but it only goes down to about 6mb, I do have a 300k SWF version but its not very good quality and much faster.

The total Ice video was about 90min and about 19gb when I pulled it from my camera! Windows really loved that.......i wish i had a mac
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Old 28-03-2003, 13:03   #14 (permalink)
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If you could post the swf that would give us modem users a rough idea of it.
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Old 31-03-2003, 03:29   #15 (permalink)
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There you poor quality SWF version 350k ish

http://www.lucidcreations.plus.com/ice.swf

This site has got some weird stuf on aswell I'm sure he's off his head

http://www.limmy.com
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Old 01-04-2003, 02:20   #16 (permalink)
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Haven't seen the full size avi yet but the compressed fla looks very promissing. You said you ysed a hairdryer to melt the ice... I can recommend a blowtorch or HOT AIR GUN
very efficient for ice... I also used it for drying thick (wet) layers of latex... does the job!
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Old 01-04-2003, 03:23   #17 (permalink)
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only a play around it hard to get the logo to stay in the same place without slipping eventhough its in the center of about 3cm of ice, i've a few version lying flat standing up all directions. Maybe I'lll come back to it one day. I'm gonna spend thursday this week videoing weird stuff I'll keep up posted if I get any interesting results
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Old 01-04-2003, 07:08   #18 (permalink)
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hey, if you want weird... try:
http://www.doodie.com
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Old 01-04-2003, 07:21   #19 (permalink)
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[quote:8bfff99ed0]I also used it for drying thick (wet) layers of latex[/quote:8bfff99ed0] ok, now im worried :eek:
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Old 01-04-2003, 08:57   #20 (permalink)
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ops: oi!... I said I used BLOW torch / hot air gun!
nah... you see I studied art & design once... people do weird things...
but if you must know - I was doing a cast of a manequin doll's face and the latex just takes ages to dry! (the thicker it is the slower the process)
amazing stuff for doing perfect impressions of things... don't get too carried away - the stuff stinks like hell of ammonia... actually, people that do it for 'pleasure'... don't understand how they can stand it... dedication I guess...
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