Seeing things others can’t
// March 3rd, 2009 // Photography
Photography’s all about seeing that which others can’t; well, at least that’s what I believe it’s about. It’s about taking the ordinary and turning it into the extraordinary, regardless of whether it’s a person, whether it’s a situation, or whether it’s something as mundane as a bowl of fruit. Good photography makes you double-take and go, ‘Wow. I didn’t even see that!’.
Which is why I’m so impressed with this:
Bathtub IV from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.
Using a tilt-shift lens? Not so new. Making a progressive montage of photos to tell a story? Again, not so new. But combining them to turn it into something that looks and feels different? Sheer brilliance.
Even though I know how the whole tilt-shift lens thing works, my mind still can’t match that knowledge with the magical little pictures the technique creates. For some reason logic can’t penetrate the illusion. And adding the whole timelapse thing…. oh, i think my brain is going to melt.
It reminds me of those claymation shows I used to watch as a kid, except it’s real. I know what you mean though – I constantly have difficulty trying to resolve the reality from the fiction …