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The journal of Dennison Bertram. An American fashion photographer in the Czech Republic. Happy, sad, and everything in between.

Wednesday, July 26, 2006

Movie Still


Another project I've been doing is toying with the idea of shooting stop-motion fashion movies using a regular Digital-SLR. This is the final still shot from the short (10 second) movie that I did in the studio today. Not to be confused with shooting 'VIDEO', as in a 'camcorder' or something, what I am doing is actually shooting individual frames (like normal photography work) and then merging them together like stop-motion claymation. It's really an awesome process that gives really *awesome* results (in my opinion) as the quality of the image can be incredibly high (many times higher than even HD-Video) and the depth of field is much shallower than even many film-movie cameras. The catch? It's jerky old-timey 1918 frame rate. Very, very, choppy. But when coupled with fashion- it looks AWESOME. Here's the final frame. I'll post the movie itself sometime soon, but it's beauty so if your in America it's probably Not-Safe-For-Work (au-natural) but if your in Europe, then its not even on par with your average bottled water commercial.