Stunning String Vibrations – Slow Motion
Haven’t done a fun end of week post for a while, so here we go! When @JimAnning sent me this I just had to share it straight away on the Twitter feed, and here it is in its full glory, just ‘wow’:
stunning bass-string shot from urbanscreen on Vimeo.
You can click through to Vimeo to see it in full HD glory. It is shot with a Canon 5D Mark II, which is what I use for most of the photography I do, and the effect is caused by strobing from the interaction between the camera’s shutter speed and the frequency of the string. Wonderful. It’s like the ‘private life’ of a bass string exposed. Did you know they did that much jumping around?
Fascinating – and reminiscent. The music took me back down to Rio De J.
This video is stunning but also misleading–while the strings do move laterally more than half an inch, the apparent “squiggly” shapes we see here are an illusion. The apparent short period waves (i.e. the way it appears that peaks and troughs in a given string occur only 2 or 3 inches apart) are an artifact of the Canon’s video raster pattern interacting with the angle and frequency of the strings. At no point in time does a bass string really have the rippled shape that we see here.
Very cool to watch.
So nice to watch but probably not to play with it