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It's the new trendy abstract that's easier than hours of Photoshop experimental fucking aroundness. Can you do this with a digital?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/cameratoss/interesting/

― Rex Roofer, Tuesday, 25 October 2005 15:25 (nineteen years ago)

i dont understand this. how does it work????

― nathalie, a bum like you (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 15:37 (nineteen years ago)

You set camera for a longer exposure and throw it up into the air. It looks like these people are experimenting with dark rooms and interesting light sources, but it's impossible to tell. I suspect the more you do it, the better you'd get, which is why a digital camera would be optimal for this sort of thing. But, I don't know that most digital cameras can be manipulated in this way like the standard photographer 35mm ones. There are these same sorts of 35mm digital cameras, of course, but they are pretty expensive.

― Rex Roofer, Tuesday, 25 October 2005 15:40 (nineteen years ago)

I like these pictures. Neat!

― giboyeux (skowly), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

I experimented with this kind of thing a few years back, with a film camera, after reading it as an exercise suggestion in a 1960s photography "hints and tips" book. Being rather nervous about tossing an expensive camera into the air, I swung it around on the strap rather violently instead. None of the results I got, though, were as good as the ones on that site.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

it should work with most digitals - just set for timed exposure with a small aperature and hold the shutter down and wave the camera. You DONT have to "toss" it. Just wave it at the light source and move in circles or triangles or wigglys of your own design.

― Wiggy (Wiggy), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 16:01 (nineteen years ago)

best cameratoss ever is, of course, at the end of Slacker where he throws a pixelvision camera off a cliff (or something).

actually those are quite nice (suspiciously so in some cases)

― koogs (koogs), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 16:03 (nineteen years ago)

I just tried that - the results are kind of boring, but may be better if I weren't in an office cube with flourescent light and tan office furniture.

― when something smacks of something (dave225.3), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 16:03 (nineteen years ago)

I can't wait to see the Cameradropohshitmomisgonnakillme website.

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 16:44 (nineteen years ago)

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