Introduction: For the final project in the Performance platform, Eduardo Moreno And I worked together. We came out with different ideas, but the main tool we proposed to use was the slow motion camera. This was the tool that we got along with in a better approach, and it wasn't giving as much headaches as the marker-less motion capture system (this instrument was very interesting, but we had some problems configuring the whole system in class, which made me lose interest very fast).
First idea: Working with the slow motion camera, we watched many videos online, and decided we wanted to experiment with our Flash strobes and see how the light would act in slow motion. We wanted to capture the whole process of flash light coming out of the strobes, and how it is reflected on the objects being photographed.
The come out: We set all our personal equipment in the performance platform in order to capture our idea. <iframe width="640" height="564" src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/321478761" frameborder="0" allowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen webkitAllowFullScreen></iframe>
We had several problems, as the light was so fast, the high speed camera wasn't able to capture the whole movement. Every time we shot a video, it took us a long time to find the result. The speed of the Flash light was way faster than the high speed camera. What we learned in the process, is that the speed of the flashes strobes is < 1/1,000,000 second, thats less than one Millionth of a second) (http://www.woodselec.com/strobe.htm)
