… sauvie island …

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Liz and I took a drive out to Sauvie Island today and I shot a short segment of time lapse footage out the window of the car. I time remapped it in After Effects to give it the “slow to fast” look. I also frame morphed the pictures together to create artificial frames in areas of low frame rates.

For example … the movie plays back at 24 frames per second, but due to the time remapping, it starts at less than one frame per second. In order to fill all the 24 frames each second, the program will “morph” adjacent frames together. Sometimes these adjacent frames are seconds apart, so the program has to calculate how to morph from one image to the next. It can look very weird.

I’ve been playing with this for a while now.

Last year, I started frame morphing stills I shot in Portugal in 2002 on the world’s worst digital camera. I could create ten second films out of two frames! It was interesting for me to see what the computer would come up with to “fill the gaps”.

I then started to compose shots specifically for this effect. Liz and I took a trip to the John Day parks in the summer of 2007 and I shot a bunch of stuff that I applied this technique to.

Maybe I’ll post it someday …