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DSC00919 , originally uploaded by QuakkauQ . This photo was created as part of a multi-photographer Camera Toss Group collaboration. The pattern primitive image used with permission and under the terms of the Creative Commons; Attribution, Non-Commercial, Share-Alike 2.0 license . See Shared Source Collaboration #1 and results . See also all results of such themes. Our first collaboration theme (#1) was posted to the group today by Jens. The image above is a result from working with a graphical source displayed on their computer monitor, we are encouraging everyone to try out this same primitive source image and share their results, hence the "shared source" of this little project. More to come as more results are shared and new themes are posted.

... to a flickr community near you . Something new, a project, a theme, a chance to collaborate, a chance to create something that is "bigger" than just one photographer! Teaser by QuakkauQ Teaser by mtnrockdhh Teaser by tossthecam Teaser by clickykbd Teaser by eastofnorth Teaser by lehmio Teaser by Right Brain Teaser by Beer30 Stay tuned to the forum thread to get the details on how to participate.

DSC08276 , originally uploaded by QuakkauQ . Hi internets. Just writing to introduce you to the newest "moderator" for the Camera Toss Group on flickr. Jens Ludwig aka QuakkauQ , hailing from Germany, has been a long time member and you've seen his excellent images all over this blog. Now he's joined David Hull aka mtnrockdhh to help keep the photo pool on topic and help ease new members into the idea of Camera Tossing. The photo in this post was created by Jens and shared with the group yesterday. Very fitting for an introduction post I thought. Jens also maintains his own site/domain about camera tossing, www.cameratossing.de , where he posts some of his photos and experiments, news, yet ANOTHER Camera Tossing, HOWTO , and hosts an invited 'friend's gallery' for other camera tossers he knows well. Jens is also the instigator of a collaborative project we are introducing to the community. I'll post more on that topic very soon. ;-)

I guess one of the behaviors of the new genre of subscriber/reader driven content and publishing in the magazine industry is the inevitability of covering the same topic more than once. ;-) JPG Magazine , which did a story (including interviews) on Camera Tossing in it's formative youth ( Issue 6 ), has pushed another Camera Toss article amusingly titled Get Fresh With Us: "Toss Your Camera" in Issue 16 . Apparently JPG thinks seconds are fresher than firsts? This one however takes the form of a very brief photo challenge posed to it's readers/photographers online, and a selection of voted/edited picks of the result. Basically it's the magazine version of my "Pool Picks" postings except with JPG contributers being the "pool", and without really providing any instructive context, history, or origins for the readers and contributors. Ironically there was a user contributed howto article on the subject linked from the challenge pages, b...

The two workshop sessions at the Festival della Creativita were a success... everyone had a great time, cameras were thrown with gusto, and no incidents to report of damaged equipment. Here's some (albeit bad flash photography) documentation, and a few tosses I produced as examples during the interactive element. I also have a couple video clips that I'll post later. In the above you'll notice two boxes of "packing peanuts"... this was our mechanism for catching cameras safely, and it worked quite well. If you've been wanting to try this I highly recommend it for beginners. Some in the community have suggested the boxes were dangerously small, but most participants turned out to have a fair degree of accuracy once they got used to lobbing their cameras towards something. And some photos taken by others of the workshop, the first of which is myself during the lecture portion: Cosimo Brunetti, a friend of Lorenzo , also produced this cute cartoon for...

Perhaps you have been wondering why i've been so quite lately. Well... FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The Creativity of Camera Tossing A participation based workshop on kinetic photography , the notorious Camera Toss technique, and the general creative process and thinking. Hosted by Ryan Gallagher , facilitated by Lorenzo "Lugo" Guasti for the Festival della Creativita (Florence Italy Oct 25th-28th). DESCRIPTION (l'Italiano) Camera Toss con Ryan Gallagher of kineticphotography.net and cameratoss.blogspot.com Ryan Gallgher è uno dei più famosi fotografi al mondo per quanto riguarda la fotografia cinetica e la fotografia derivata dal lancio della macchina fotografica (camera toss). Ha un sito personale e un blog molto frequentato e contenente centinaia di fantastiche foto fatte con questa tecnica. Grazia alla collaborazione tra Ryan e Lorenzo “logu” Guasti, direttore di Digiarte, si è concretizzata la possibilità di inviare Ryan a Firenze per un Workshop dove ci possa ...

iPhone distort , originally uploaded by mathowie . In case anyone was wondering, it does appear that the iPhone suffers from the same flaws (or advantages depending on your perspective) as the rest of the camera-phones that exhibit rolling shutter distortions via their shutterless CMOS technology. This example is actually really neat in that the camera was not moving at all. Instead the rapid rotation of the propeller was captured in different orientations as the "scan" of the sensor proceeded over time. Thanks mathowie for the great example of the effect. Disclaimer: By posting this here I am not recommending ANYONE throw their iPhone . Considering the cost of the device, that is just absurd! Plus they look really slick and hard to catch. ;-)

DSC00733 , originally uploaded by tossthecam . We have posted examples and discussion of this effect, capable of being extremely exaggerated by Camera Tossing . At the time I was speculating from experience and observation, deciding to call it "focal plane sensor distortion", borrowing from " focal plane shutter distortion " known previously and exhibited in slit scanning techniques . Well it turns out many imaging scientists have been tackling the problem/effect for the purposes of producing accurate cheap CMOS based camera sensors for robotics. In the digital world, it is referred to as a rolling shutter effect, caused by exactly the reasons we speculated on. tossthecam , whose photo is posted above, dug up an research article from Harvard addressing the possibilities of capitalizing on this property of CMOS technology for application in robotics as sensors for structure-form-motion problems. Geometric Models of Rolling-Shutter Cameras Marci Meingast; ...

There have been so many requests for some instructional content on how to camera toss and what is camera toss ! Finally we can accommodate you! A short beginners guide written by _nod . _nod's tossing guide for beginners When you are ready for some more detail and examples... Camera Toss, Mini-HOWTO Consider these both draft documents, direct questions and corrections to the authors respectively or just leave a comment! Separately, a photography link of the day, unrelated to camera tossing but very very cool: Variable Focus Light Field Photography .

neighbor_house Originally uploaded by jemof . Not visually stunning, but this unique contribution was shot from a height of 20+ feet in the air, thrown! Don't attempt this type of toss unless your camera remembered to wear it's parachute, as this one is!