Black Rock City 2007 Panoramic Video Loops

In the past several years, I had gotten into shooting panoramic images with my 35mm film camera and then with my digital camera. But rather than use stitching software to make the resulting images seamless, I enjoy the aesthetic of the imperfectly matched edges. In 2007 I decided to do some experiments with my little digital camera. (My cheap digital still camera has the ability to record silent video in a proprietary 640x480, 15 fps format. I like the grainy video and slower framerate.) I shot ten second video clips in a panoramic manner, intending to try to come back and composite them together into some very large, high-resolution images. I knew in advance that I would not be using a tripod and would allow for pleasing imperfections. Also, I didn't time the shots exactly... I just tried to count off ten seconds silently, resulting in loops of slightly different lengths. Another thing I like is my camera's brightness/contrast adjustment that it makes whenever it begins recording -- it takes about a second for it to adjust from a dark image to a balanced image. In a composite with dozens of images at slightly different lengths, it sometimes ends up having a very cool effect. Some of the resulting composited images are well over 5000 pixels wide, (though they tend not to be more than three "screens" or about 1900 pixels tall). There's no way I know of to project video images this large (yet!). I do have renders at 1280x1024 which I could make available for download later ...

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