Here’s a piece of sheer cinematic beauty — a short movie of New York made using a technique known as ’tilt shift’ that turns the city into a kind of toyland seen from the point of view of a giant. Please don’t watch it embedded in this page. Follow the link to Vimeo, choose HD then hit full screen and be amazed.
Even more amazing is the way the filmmaker Sam O’Hare put the thing together. You can read the details here but in a nutshell:
- He shot 35,000 still pictures using a Nikon digital still camera attached to a simple Gorillapod, the same kind of clingy portable tripod device I use to much less effect for night scenes in Venice
- He then processed using techniques I can’t begin to understand, only to end up with something that looks incredibly natural, not the kind of over-worked CGI effect that seems to fill the cinema these days.
Mr O’ Hare: I am in awe. Please someone: sign this guy up for something big.
The Sandpit from Sam O’Hare on Vimeo.
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