Easy and free bullet time photography
Wednesday 30 January 2019, 20:10 by Michelle Peeters | 4,361 views | 0 commentsThis article was translated from Dutch with the help of AI. Read the original.
Want to create a bullet time shot, but don't have an ultra-expensive camera array or high-speed camera? This 27-second video shows a wonderfully cheap and simple way to create the same effect with any video camera.
If you don't have a camera that can record super slow motion, ask a friend to slow down or freeze their movement while you take photos, and you can create a smooth slow-motion or time-freeze effect in post-production.
Filmmaker Kris Gid had a group of people play basketball and then freeze completely at exactly the same moment. The filmmaker then kept his Nikon D3300 (shooting at 60 fps) pointed at one subject while circling around the group.
After editing the footage in Adobe Premiere CC, the result can be seen in the impressive bullet time shot in the video above.
What exactly is bullet time?
This is what Wikipedia says about it: Bullet time is a term introduced in the film The Matrix to describe a special way of filming slow motion, using dozens of cameras filming the action from slightly different angles all around it.
The effect is as if the viewer can walk around in the middle of the action, while time, and therefore the other movements, have been slowed down or frozen.
By having the cameras take photos very quickly one after another, one at a time, the movement becomes slow motion. If all the cameras take a photo at the same time, the movement is frozen, while the video camera moves around the frozen image.
Timeslice is the original term for bullet time and was coined for scientific applications, to be able to observe every moment at every point in a particular process.
About the author
Michelle Peeters is fotografe en oprichter van DeuxBleus Fotografie. Michelle herkent het bijzondere in het gewone en het gewone in het bijzondere. Ze heeft zich nooit willen specialiseren en is daardoor van alle markten thuis.
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