I shot the above image last weekend, but in processing it and a couple others to post on Flickr tonight, I realized there was a bit to be said about how these visuals were constructed. These same slides were used for the last Sound Noir party.

I decided early on that I wanted to work with circles of confusion, more widely known as bokeh.

Lucky for me Frej was able to loan me his 5D. I’d told him I only needed it for maybe 20 minutes, but he let me take it home.

Sometime after midnight I walked over to DeKalb and took out of focus shots of the streetlights, and cars’ head and taillights. As predicted, this took about 20 minutes.

Next, I downloaded the shot images to my laptop, edited and processed them a bit, then loaded them individually on my 24″ monitor. With each image displayed, I took shots off the monitor using my traditional SLR loaded with Velvia 50.

There really aren’t as many labs in the city processing E-6 anymore, but I found that CRC would do it for me in an acceptable amount of time.

via So Very Very Nice

You’ve probably already seen this image shot by So Very Very Nice, but it can use a bit of explaining since it wasn’t given any background the last time around.

There are actually two slides being projected here.

I have three slide projectors. Two with fairly long lenses and another with a decently wide angle lens.

The projector with the wide angle lens is on top of a speaker cabinet maybe 10′ from the wall it’s projecting onto at a somewhat sharp angle.

The second projector is across the room, and is projecting the tighter image which displays the smaller bokeh.

A couple people had a hard time figuring out where the imagery was coming from, but with just a bit of explanation, they caught on quickly.

What you’re not seeing here is the video I had projecting on the opposite wall. That’s because it wasn’t as interesting to me, just the looping night version of Tokyo Sky Drive that I’d come across a couple weeks before the event.

Now back to your regularly scheduled Daily Bunny.