45,000 Photos

How’s this for innovation.

Good video doesn’t always need a great video camera. A still camera, imagination and a lot of hours can also get you there.

Cesar Kuriyama, a New York animator and lighting technical director, has directed a visually arresting music video using an interesting technique.

Eschewing a video camera, he took 45,000 photographs with a Nikon D200 DSLR (digital single-lens reflex) camera and stitched them together to create the illusion of video.


Fat City Reprise – Long Gone from Cesar Kuriyama on Vimeo.

Amazing.

H/T Kip Gordon

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Posted by newscoma on Jan 9th, 2009 and is filed under Photos.

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6 Responses to “45,000 Photos”

  1. Lee says:
    January 10th, 2009 at 4:04 am

    Beautiful.

    Beautiful radiant lighting, beautiful blonde. (Not being snarky, the girl is stunningly gorgeous.) And the song aint that bad either.

    Thanks Missus Coma.

  2. newscoma says:
    January 10th, 2009 at 5:49 am

    You are welcome. I thought it all worked well together and the way it was shot was amazing.

  3. Dave Parker says:
    January 10th, 2009 at 9:29 am

    The communications major in me can’t help but comment about the line “the illusion of video.” Video is just an illusion of multiple frames shot and run together at high speed. I know you know this. I’m just feeling a bit professorial this morning.

  4. Dave Parker says:
    January 10th, 2009 at 9:30 am

    …but I still enjoyed the post. :-)

  5. newscoma says:
    January 10th, 2009 at 9:34 am

    Oops, those were in the article’s text. Not mine. :) Should have block quoted it, my friend.
    How are you?

  6. newscoma says:
    January 10th, 2009 at 9:35 am

    I’m a bad blogger. Put my block quotes on. Thanks Dave.