Space Time Whosits - Combining low res video with high res stills to make high res video - huh?
Aug 18th, 2008 | By Mr.K | Category: The LatestYeah, with phrases like space-time fusion, view interpolation, occlusion, and temporal dynamics this video may be best appreciated by those not afraid to geek out. But if you’d like a peak at the future of high end video enhancement sit back and prepare to have your mind blown. Mine is all over the carpet. If you can’t take all the tech talk, at least skip to minute 6:00. Saaaaweeeeet…
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This is how the unethical behavior with still photographs started. Just a little program that solves some ‘techincal’ issues with the photo and viola, photographers have carte blanche to do whatever they want. I realize that not all photogs or editors in the journalism industry do things like this but what happened to wanting to show what things actually look like? Better still what happened to wanting to learn how to operate your equipment properly to achieve the desired result. High def cameras are not that expensive in this day and age, why not get one and learn to use it. The skill of shooting still photographs and video should be the end goal not finding a way to make a crappy shoot look good. If you do it right in the first place then there is nothing to fix in post.
It’s also good to remember that there’s more than one way to fry an egg/cook a sausage. It’s not all about being a photography purist, there’s a whole world of creativity outside of photography. Surely any photographer that wants to keep their precious images purest has the right to do so, just as anyone that wants to mix it up a bit also has the right. Am getting tired of reading derogatory comments from Pro photographers that think there’s only one method that’s right, sure you cant make a bad image good, but it is possible to make a great image greater, fantasy is just as real as reality with the tools we have.
Sausages are great cooking in variety of methods and I firmly believe that if the purists managed to lock their precious photography in a room for them alone to see the world would be a darker place. Sorry for the rant, just my 2 cents.
I’m with Levi on this one. I am not a journalist. I a storyteller. I want whatever tool will most effectively help me communicate my idea. Whenever physics, safety, and budget allow I try to do it all in camera because I enjoy the challenge. Ultimately it’s the communication that matters to me not the method. The way I see it, there is no such thing as pure or true in photography. Where you stand, how you crop, when you fire the trigger, these are all decisions that alter the reality. Only the message can be true and the way someone achieves that truth isn’t important to me. Hell, getting a piece half way to truth is hard enough using everything at your disposal without tying one hand behind your back.
Wow, sounded so geeky, all the tech talk. Nevertheless, the results do look amazing…… Now I only hope the final interface would be much more user-friendly….