doruksal opened this issue on Jun 09, 2002 ยท 15 posts
doruksal posted Tue, 11 June 2002 at 5:04 PM
You know those "luxurious" mirrors which are generally encountered in the lobbies of hotels, in shops, etc., the mirrors which are made up of a number of narrow mirrors arranged as vertical slices..? In my country, you may also see them in barber shops, local fast food cafes, luxurious restaurants, etc. ... I find them rather "kitch", but the effect they make on the reflection resembles just what I'm trying to achieve, and I was definately influenced by those mirrors... My first experiences with this technique were 7-8 years away, and I used to slice two identical pictures with an x-acto knife and a ruler, generally the slices being 1 cm wide and the phase difference being 0.5 cm... ...As you may guess, this whole business was a serious pain in the ass, and was a tough test of patience. Then one day, in the "general news" pages of a photography magazine, I saw a picture that was exactly the result of the same manipulaton that I tried to explain: a high shutter-speed capture of a jockeyed horse hurdling over a barrier, shot directly from the side... ...It was impressive how the technique had given a terrific dynamism back to the freezed action..! I cannot recall whose work it was... Then, over the time, I saw other works or parts of works which were manipulated with this tecnique. So, though I found the technique by myself through self influences, it was and is already a rather known one... Really sorry for all these bla-bla, but couldn't help... :)