Photography

For a long time I have been interested in thinking about what would happen if cameras could do more than capturing a somewhat realistic representation of the incoming light through a lens. I have experimented with long exposures, slit-scans and other ways of interpreting the world. But what if we could express a photographic vision in an algorithm we could use when capturing images? We already have the tools to retouch images in post production but I am interested in finding out what happens when I implement an idea in an algorithm before any light is captured and then apply it in an environment. I think this could be called algorithmic photography and I have tried to create a definition and show some examples below. ...

Modelling by Niklas Lindström who also knows a lot about SPARQL, RDF and Brilliance.

Last night, Robert Nyman hosted yet another successful Geekmeet in Stockholm. I got one of the lightning talk slots and decided to skip my planned presentation and instead show some of my experiments with slit-scan photography. The presentation slides (in swedish) are available (8 Mb PDF) here. For more pictures see the set Slit-scan I over at flickr. The processing code for time lapse captures through the iSight camera with a static centered slit looks like this: ...

We went to Goult in Provence on vacation in August and had a great time. While there, we met Bertil Hansson, artist and photographer. We got talking about digital cameras and how they take excellent pictures that can be viewed immediately. I have been sort of bored with taking pictures lately, but Bertil lent me his Holga for a week and I had a really great time with it! If you didn’t know already, Holga is a medium format plastic camera made in the 80s for middle class chinese. Alas, there is no display, no TTL viewfinder, no autofocus and no exposure metering. The constraints imposed by the Holga was just what I needed to make taking pictures more fun! ...