A Little Mardi-Gras

Posted by Queuebot in Video Clips on March 12, 2009 at 9:43 am



(vimeo link)

Photographer Keith Loutit has mastered the art of tilt-shift photography– that is, a technique requiring a special camera lens to impart the illusion that what you’re looking at are miniatures, not life-sized human beings. When he locks the camera down and shoots hundreds of successive pics, it becomes a movie. He recently took his camera down to Sydney’s Mardi Gras celebration to capture the doll-sized fun.

Over 300,000 people lined the route of this years Mardi Gras parade, which marched up Oxford and Flinders streets in Sydney’s inner-city Darlinghurst this Saturday.

If you were there on the night: I tried to capture as much as the event as possible.

Just think: once, filmmakers used models and stop-motion effects to try and make scenes look like they were real. Now filmmakers are taking actual footage and using effects to make it look like a stop-motion claymation project! Link

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13 comments to "A Little Mardi-Gras"

  1. Gauldar
    March 12th, 2009 at 10:31 am

    That was fun to watch.

  2. linty
    March 12th, 2009 at 10:38 am

    It should be noted that there are other uses for a tilt-shift lens. They've been around for a long time and used to be used more commonly to give the photographer more control over perspective and depth of field. We probably see the results of these lenses in use more often than we realize in architectural or landscape photography.
    Using them to achieve a shallow depth of field which simulates macro photography seems to have become popular only recently.

  3. ekey
    March 12th, 2009 at 10:52 am

    Fantastic. That was a great project.

  4. jockbod
    March 12th, 2009 at 11:28 am

    It must also be noted that this is a GLBT (Gay Lesbian Bi Trans) Mardi-Gras! I wish I were there right now instead of sitting here at my desk at work! Yippie!!!

  5. Kalel
    March 12th, 2009 at 11:44 am

    It's a small world, after all.

  6. Johhny_1nut
    March 12th, 2009 at 1:48 pm

    You can make your own tiltshift photos at tiltshiftmaker.com without having to buy a thousand dollar lens.

  7. uptonty
    March 12th, 2009 at 2:22 pm

    yeah i think that's more of a pride parade rather than a mardi gras.

  8. MTHS
    March 12th, 2009 at 2:30 pm

    FYI - you simulate tilt-shift images using a photo editor like photoshop or GIMP (free). google it or yahoo it or whatever

  9. Swaaaan
    March 12th, 2009 at 2:54 pm

    you just KNOW someone is going to use this for a music video now...

  10. Johnny Cat
    March 12th, 2009 at 5:42 pm

    @Swaaaan:

    http://vimeo.com/3209208

    You're right. :)

  11. Bex
    March 12th, 2009 at 9:11 pm

    I was there! Would like to add it went for over 2.5 hours... ;)

  12. Jessica
    March 13th, 2009 at 12:41 am

    That's amazing. It's almost like stop motion. Also the editing is fantastic with all the different angles and matching the tempo to the song. I've done something similar to this and I know how annoying it can be to align all the images to make it flow and match the beat of the song.
    This video put a big smile on my face. =D

  13. ted
    March 14th, 2009 at 5:23 pm

    This whole tilt-shift thing - has it not yet been done to death?


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