Yesterday was Boing Boing International Meetup Day. I stopped by the Orbit Room to check out the local get together and meet cool Boing Boing readers. Lots of folks brought cool gadgets AND I got to meet Douglas Rushkoff (who coined the term Generation X), but I also got a chance to take some neat picture of the globes that happened to be scattered around the bar.
Today’s appsperiment, “Global Meet Up“, was originally taken on my iPhone 4 using an app called Synth-Cam. Synth-Cam was created by Marc Levoy, a Stanford Professor, to replicate the look of a shallow depth of field you can find on a nice SLR camera. It does this by taking multiple photos while slightly moving the camera, then overlaying those images so that a specific area remains crisp while other parts blur (depending on their position in relation to the object in “focus”). I like to leave my iPhone stationary (preferably on a tripod) while using SynthCam so that stationary objects remain crisp while moving objects blur around them.
For final the final color effect I used Color Splash, an app that allows you to select certain areas of a color photograph and turn them into black and white. If you like this, check out more of my SynthCam images here.
Bonus Boing Boing Meet Up photos:
I used Slit-Scan to capture this shot of Jupiter while it was spinning. Slit-Scan works by slowly recording a horizontal (or vertical) line. While keeping my iPhone on a tripod, I slit scanned the image from bottom to top while someone spun the globe.
You can also set the slit scanline to stay stationary while continuously generating an image. For the above photo, my camera was stationary while the camera recorded a static line, then I turned of the hold button, allowing the scanner to move left to right from it’s current stationary position.
