The iPhone. Wonderful instrument. Packs a lot of fun into a small space. A tool I rely on.
There is no doubt the phone’s camera is a great tool, too. Beyond its obvious importance in every owner’s memory project- the digital capture of friends, relatives and significant life events.
Lazy photogs such as moi, bored with the weight of s DSLR and a bag of lenses appreciate the deck-of-cards weight and size of an iPhone. Add in the fun of apps that encourage creative exploration and fun …. soon you discover that you never leave home without your phone for reasons that have nothing to do with talking to anybody.
Which brings me to the point of this blog. I was in London late last Spring. Visiting the daughter. One day waiting for her to get off work, smalltown chump that I am, I put myself in the midst of the stressed hordes that were heading home. Using my trusty ol’ iPhone 4s, I tried to capture a few pics of London’s citizens. Determined folks heading home. Not time-lapse. Simply images of people rushing.
The phone’s camera has a panorama option that allows for views that can extend beyond 180 degrees. Wanting to capture streaming human cattle upclose I opted for this setting. Standing back to capture a wide-angle shot would not have given me the intimacy I wanted.
Most panoramas these days are composites of several pics that the photog has taken in succession while panning the across a landscape. The processing engines in cameras and computers stitch these still images together to make a panorama. A seamless wide-angle view. Algorithms in the processing engine decide how to blend, how to bend, how to make the slight variations of similar frames match up.
All I have to say looking at my London sidewalk captures is …. WTF!
Moving the camera at a set speed, across a field whose foreground view is a series of units-in-motion challenged the camera’s processor. In fact, it choked. Made some weird decisions. The processor appears to be using many video frames and not three or four still images to composite the panoramas.
The result, however, is visually delicious! A look at the gallery, Cutup People:http://tedamsdenphotography.com/project/cutup-people/ will show you what I mean.
Images of partial people. Faces and bodies cobbled together with a Picassoesque strangeness. Awkward movement glitches. Note the truncated City of London bus in one frame.
Trigger Warning Visually-Sensitive People! You might find the images unsettling.
I found myself becoming all-Marshall-McLuhan gooey while studying these images. They present a dramatic example of how our tools can change the way we see.
Photography is so much fun!
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I thought of going further with this type of capture before showing examples. There is a lot of messiness in the hit ‘n miss nature of these captures. Some ugly blending in fact had to be weeded out. Unfortunately, I have the attention span of a squirrel. So these are my nutty captures for now.
Cheers photo fans!
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