Multicam Project, Aurora, Pink Snow

I don't have any walk-around snapshots to share with you guys, except maybe a few that I took in January of the snow and a pink gel, and some snapshots of aurora borealis back in October (I didn't share those because I was M.I.A. for most of 2024.. alright, I'll share those too ..), but I realized I never shared too much on here about the progress of my multi-camera images. In the middle of 2023 I got hooked on this idea of taking long-exposure portraits with multiple cameras from multiple angles, so that could I both explore blurred motion of light in "3d", and so I could make lenticular "3d" prints. I saved up a bit and in September I began ordering a lot of cheap used dSLRs, so many that it made MPB reach out to me and question why I was buying all their cheap used cameras (I'm not reselling them, don't worry! They raised their prices anyway after that splurge investment.)

Well, I spent about a month in 2023, and a few months in 2024, playing with this process. Turns out lenticular is pretty difficult to master and very limited in its capabilities, but I've been really enjoying the animated results of the multi-camera images. I normally stick to sharing only my walk-around snapshots with you guys, not so much my studio work, but I thought ya'll might enjoy this, so here you go.

What's fun to me about these is that it mixes my in-camera unreal/surreal imaging techniques with 3d. I had someone ask me if the last image was made of compositing/blending/masking two frames into one, but not only was the split head effect captured in-camera, it would've been way more difficult to try to recreate that during post-processing than it was capturing it in-camera.

Here's the aurora borealis that I drove 3 hours west to Lake Michigan to capture back in October:

Then in January I did go muck about in the snow, just to play with some pink plastic in front of my flash. These were kind of fun!