Melissa Tait | Visual Blog http://medialynx.ca/blog Thu, 29 Sep 2011 01:09:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 The 360 Project by Ryan Enn Hughes http://medialynx.ca/blog/2011/09/27/the-360-project-by-ryan-enn-hughes/ http://medialynx.ca/blog/2011/09/27/the-360-project-by-ryan-enn-hughes/#comments Tue, 27 Sep 2011 18:08:57 +0000 meltaitWP http://medialynx.ca/blog/?p=1778 My talented friend Ryan Enn Hughes has released an awesome piece of work: The 360 Project.
“The 360 Project is an exploration into the crossroads of photography and motion pictures. It is a study of peak dance movements, captured simultaneously by 48 cameras aligned in a circle” Read more on Ryan’s blog.

The project was made possible with the support of the Ontario Arts Council’s Chalmers Arts Fellowship. Additional support provided by Canada’s National Ballet School.

I was happy to help Ryan out carrying heavy boxes, but mostly I shot behind the scenes on the hybrid set. Much like the end product, the 360 set was a collision of photography and film. It had the hierarchy of a film set, but the feel of a photography session. The Big Freeze – the company Ryan partnered with to create the 360 look – had never worked with photographic strobe lights, so much of the work was new to everyone. It was also a lot of fun. There were 48 Nikon cameras lined up in a meticulously precise circle and Ryan got to trigger them all simultaneously with the push of a button. It was an enjoyable experience for photo-geeks. Here are some shots from the two-day shoot.

Here’s the full timelapse:

]]> http://medialynx.ca/blog/2011/09/27/the-360-project-by-ryan-enn-hughes/feed/ 0 Some summa stories and pics http://medialynx.ca/blog/2011/07/30/some-summa-stories-and-pics/ http://medialynx.ca/blog/2011/07/30/some-summa-stories-and-pics/#comments Sat, 30 Jul 2011 20:34:44 +0000 meltaitWP http://medialynx.ca/blog/?p=1682 Before I head off to the cottage for a week, here are some stories and photos from (slightly) recent times. There’s only about 5 weeks left in my contract at The Record!

Elderly Cambridge couple suffers serious injuries in house fire

Earlier that weekend there was an expensive fire with no one hurt and LOTS of looky-loos. The dude is a good friend of the owners, the girls were just…. bored watching a house fire?

SAD STORIES.

Ribbons to mark communities’ grief over accident victim

Kitchener motocross rider dead after bike hits tree at Walton, Ont., track

LESS SAD STORIES

Bike sharing riding into Kitchener

This is the story and photo about Ben Fanelli’s triathlon in Milton. Someone from CBC pulled a screen cap off our website, without permission or attribution, and used in a Hockey Night in Canada Coach’s Corner broadcast.

Fanelli puts his hockey grit to work in triathlon

Screen grab of the CBC broadcast

Big heroes in little packages

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Waterloo Regional Police Mounted Patrol. Story HERE

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* Christian LaForce, photographer, Chronicle-Herald

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