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Stunning String Vibrations – Slow Motion

Posted by Benjamin on August 8, 2009 Filed under: video tagged: bass, strings

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?

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4 Responses to “Stunning String Vibrations – Slow Motion”

  1. Ewan Kennedy, on September 3rd, 2009 at 6:12 PM Said:

    Fascinating – and reminiscent. The music took me back down to Rio De J.

  2. detroitsubway, on February 19th, 2010 at 11:29 PM Said:

    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.

  3. Ignited We Stand, on April 13th, 2011 at 6:41 PM Said:

    Very cool to watch.

  4. Vax Highy, on September 25th, 2012 at 3:29 PM Said:

    So nice to watch but probably not to play with it 🙂

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