Thumbnails & Links to Experimental Digital Photographs: For Teachers, Students & Academics by Rick Doble

Thumbnails & Links toExperimental Digital Photographs:

For Teachers, Students & Academics

by Rick Doble

Copyright © 2014 Rick DobleAll work is for public use and does not require a fee or a license

Click on a thumbnail to go onto the web and see the full sized picture

One of my experimental photographs: candid, handheld (about 2 seconds), under available light at a telephoto

setting. This photo was created entirely with photographic effects and not software effects.

TABLE OF CONTENTSINTRODUCTION

Why I Posted Some of My Best Work on Commons.Wikimedia.Org for public use......3

Introduction to Rick Doble's Gallery on Commons.Wikimedia.Org..................4

PHOTOGRAPHS

Guitarists with motion-blur effects............................................5

Violinists with motion-blur effects............................................8

Various musicians with motion-blur effects.....................................11

Candid photos of musicians with both areas

of sharpness and motion-blur effects.....................................14

Audience with motion-blur effects..............................................16

"Camera Painting" photographs..................................................17

Candid portraits using motion blur effects.....................................20

Experimental digital self-portraits............................................21

Candid slow shutter speed: automobile &

traffic shots handheld under available light.............................24

Candid rodeo slow shutter speed panning shots under available light............28

Candid figure-study photographs shot under available light.....................29

Early experimental digital photographs with a limited

Casio QV-100 & a Sony Floppy Disk (FD) Mavica............................33

Self-Portraits.................................................................33

Ferris Wheels with motion-blur effects.........................................34

Roads at night with motion-blur effects........................................35

Early candid motion-blur digital photos of rave dancers........................36

GIF CINEMAGRAPHS -- POSSIBLY THE FIRST MADE

Experimental asynchronous digital still photographs

made into animated GIF Cinemagraphs......................................39

GIF animations depicting the four Greek elements: Earth, Water, Air, and Fire..42

Gif Self-Portaits: Experimental asynchronous digital still photographs

made into animated GIF animations in 1998................................43

EARLY EXPERIMENTAL COMPUTER PHOTOGRAPHY

(1987): Women in Motion from the B&W photographs of Eadweard Muybridge.........48

(1990S) Digitized and colorized snowflakes.....................................52

Rick Doble Thumbnails & Links to Experimental Digital Photographs: For Teachers, Students & Academics Page 2

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Rickdoble/My_Gallery_Experimental_Digital_Photography

Why I Posted Some of My Best Work on

Commons.Wikimedia.Org for Public Use

My book, Experimental Digital Photography (Sterling Publishing, New York/London, 2010),

is now being used as a text book in high schools and college courses. This book is the first to

discuss experimental photographic effects, such as motion-blur, rather than software effects

created in a photo editing program such as PhotoShop.

As a result I wanted my photographs to be accessible to students, teachers, artists,

experimenters, scientists and others.

I am something of a purist when it comes to photography. I have been taking photographs

for over 40 years and know how to hold a camera steady. So virtually all of my camera work is

handheld, candid and under available light. I often shoot at very slow shutter speeds

handheld and just as often at a telephoto range. Of course, many of my photos are too

blurred using these techniques, but when they do work they have a vitality and a sense of the

moment that I think is quite unique. In this paper I wanted to share my vision of what

photography is capable of recording -- that is, not just the still sharp image we are familiar

with, but also the somewhat blurred image that breathes with the pulse of life.

For these reasons I have made some of my very best work available online and for public

use. I included a wide range of photographs and photographic effects. Virtually all of these

photographs are experimental.

This paper is a full listing of my work on Commons.Wikimedia.Org. You may use the

photographs without further permission as long as you list the URL for the photograph with

the photo.

If you do use my work, I would, of course, be delighted if you would also send me an email

and let me see how you have used the work: My email address is: [email protected]



Introduction to Rick Doble's Gallery

on Commons.Wikimedia.Org

Experimental digital photography is now taught as a course at a variety of high schools,

community colleges and colleges worldwide. My photographs and my book on the subject are

used by many of these schools. Quite a few of the photographs on this page are from my

book, Experimental Digital Photography (Sterling Publishing, New York/London, 2010), the

first book on the subject -- a book that is used in a number of these courses and is in over 250

libraries worldwide. As one of first people to experiment in this manner, I have contributed

some of my best work to Commons.Wikimedia.org.

My particular method for experimentation has been to take candid photographs at slow

shutter speeds handheld under available light. My shutter speeds have ranged from 1/4

second to 20 seconds, depending on the circumstances. This is the kind of photography in

the Wikimedia category Motion blur. I wanted to photograph a continuous duration, rather

than sequential sharp images as in Chronophotography as pioneered by Muybridge and

others. Instead I wanted to record images that showed the full range of motion over time, not

unlike the the Italian Futurists and in particular the photographer associated with the Italian

Futurists, Anton Giulio Bragaglia.

The photos you see in this gallery were created over fifteen years using digital cameras

starting in 1998. The imagery you see here was created with photographic effects and not

with computer graphics. I did, however, tweak my photos using standard darkroom techniques

to adjust contrast and brightness, for example.

User:Rickdoble/My Gallery Experimental Digital Photography


http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Anton_Giulio_Bragaglia



http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Futurism_(art)

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Chronophotography

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Motion_blur

Guitarists with motion-blur effects

These photos of guitar players were taken with 2-second handheld exposures.

They are candid photographs taken under available light as these guitarists played.

Effects were created with photography and not created with software.



http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1_guitarist_motion_blur_experimental_digital_photography_by_Rick_Doble.jpg



Using motion blur techniques, these experimental digital photographs were in part inspired by the Italian Futurists.

These photos used some of the photographic ideas pioneered by the Futurist photographer, Bragaglia.

Part of the above series of guitarists in motion, these photos show the range of effects with slow shutter speed photography.












Violinists with motion-blur effects

Violinist shot at a slow shutter speed in the style of the Italian Futurist painters/photographers

In the same manner as the guitarist series above, these candid photos are of violinists as they played -- using a slow

camera shutter speed.



http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:9781600595172_a030.jpg

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1_violinists_motion_blur_experimental_digital_photography_by_Rick_Doble.jpg












Various musicians with motion-blur effects

In the same manner as the guitarist series above, these candid photos are of a variety of musicians as they played -- using a

slow camera shutter speed.



http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1_musicians_motion_blur_experimental_digital_photography_by_Rick_Doble.jpg














Candid photos of musicians

with both areas of sharpness

and motion-blur effects



http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1_musicians_motion_blur_with_sharpness_experimental_digital_photography_by_Rick_Doble.jpg








Audience with motion-blur effects



http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1_audience_motion_blur_experimental_digital_photography_by_Rick_Doble.jpg

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2_audience_motion_blur_experimental_digital_photography_by_Rick_Doble.jpg

"Camera Painting" photographs created by moving a camera for an extended time

over a light source



http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:01_camera_painting_motion_blur_experimental_digital_photography_by_Rick_Doble.jpg















Candid portraits

using motion-blur effects



http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:01_portrait_motion_blur_experimental_digital_photography_by_Rick_Doble.jpg



Experimental digital self-portraits



http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:01_self-portrait_motion_blur_experimental_digital_photography_by_Rick_Doble.jpg



http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:01_self-portrait_experimental_digital_photography_by_Rick_Doble.jpg










Candid slow shutter speed:

automobile & traffic shots

handheld under available light.



http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:01_cars_traffic_experimental_digital_photography_by_Rick_Doble.jpg





















Candid rodeo slow shutter speed

panning shots under available light



http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:01_rodeo_motion_blur_experimental_digital_photography_by_Rick_Doble.jpg




Candid figure study photographs

shot under available light



http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:01_figure_study_experimental_digital_photography_by_Rick_Doble.jpg






















Early experimental digital photographswith a limited Casio QV-100 & a Sony Floppy Disk (FD) Mavica

Self-Portraits



http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:01_self-portrait_early_experimental_digital_photography_by_Rick_Doble.jpg



Ferris Wheels with motion-blur effects

Ferris Wheels at night with camera movement





http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ferris_wheel_in_motion_01.jpg


Roads at night with motion-blur effects

Highway at night through a car windshield as another drove, 8 second exposure.




http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Highway_at_night_slow_shutter_speed_photography_01.jpg



Early candid motion-blur

digital photos of rave dancers





http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:01_rave_dancing_motion_blur_experimental_digital_photography_by_Rick_Doble.jpg













Experimental asynchronous

digital still photographs

made into animated GIF Cinemagraphs.Shot in 1998 with an early lo-res fixed-lens Casio camera.

These may be the first GIF cinemagraphs.

Click on a thumbnail to go the web page to see the animation.



http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:01_gif_animation_experimental_digital_photography_by_Rick_Doble.gif















GIF animations depicting the four Greek elements:

Earth, Water, Air, and Fire






http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:01_classical_greek_4_elements_earth.gif

GIF Self-Portaits:

Experimental asynchronous digital still photographs

made into animated GIF animations in 1998



http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:02_classical_greek_4_elements_water.gif

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:03_classical_greek_4_elements_air.gif

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:04_classical_greek_4_elements_fire.gif

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:01_self-portrait_animated_gif_rick_doble.gif























Early experimental computer photography (1987):

from the black and white photographs

of figures by Eadweard Muybridgedigitized and colorized

using the Radio Shack Color Computer (CoC0)

and software I wrote.



http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:01_muybridge_figure_early_experimental_digital_photography_by_Rick_Doble.jpg


















Early experimental computer photography

in the 1990s:

digitized and colorized snowflakes from the black and white microscopic photographs

of snow crystals by Wilson Bentley



http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:01_snowflake_colorized_early_experimental_digital_photography_by_Rick_Doble.png














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Thumbnails & Links to Experimental Digital Photographs: For Teachers, Students & Academics by Rick Doble