Looks like a dreamy effect. Kind of the same feeling I get after days of insomnia… How about Insomniac? Insomniac Life “Reading” – ILR. Life through an Insomniac Eyes. LOL. Just kidding.

1:31 is awesome… kicking the trash, awesome catch!

I would call the “Slo Mo” but not meaning “Slow Motion”, but rather, “Slow Moments”.

I would love to learn how to do this. I am often experimenting myself using an HD Camcorder and wish I could do more with the limited hardware. Some of my work is also on Vimeo.
I look forward to seeing the tutorial.
Paul

Wow man!!! this is awesome… you could call it Momentum… it is great, congratulations

Love it !
Maybe call it “slo-pho” or something along those lines.
“Slomotion” “SloMo Photography”
Looking forward to the tutorial !
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Very nice!, I would call it imation – image and motion…that’s my 5c

reminds me of dreaming. love the Patrick O’Hearn with it.

looks RED

Very nice and interesting “video” Trey. I think it is very close to the idea of Bullet Time. Perhaps Dynamic Imaging Or Digital Dynamic Imaging would be a good name…

Definitly a good movie, but I dont know what else to call it. It doesnt seem like anything that stands out as “new” to me. Maybe I’m missing something?

It seems to me that it is slow motion movie with the use of panning either by car or foot. Maybe really fast still photography? It does give a cool 3D Effect, but it seems as though I have seen it somewhere before.

I look forward to your tutorial to see what it is that I might be missing.

Nifty

David Sanger inspired me to think, “Flowmotion”. Very cool – the possibilities are huge!

It seems to me that you walked around Japan with a high-speed camera in your hand. Whether or not that’s the case, I thoroughly enjoyed the video and new technique. I shall call it: Japanimationography. :p

Really nice. Somewhere between a time-lapse and video… But is fluid…

I think I’ll call it Liquid-Stills or Fluid-Stills. I believe you took it in non-stop burst mode photography? So as the name implies – liquid movement/transitions of still photographs taken through burst mode. Whatdaya think?

These are really nice shots…
And I can definitely see that once you show (ordinary) people how to do it, we’ll start to see it everywhere.
I would call it “Moment Capture”, because a moment in life is longer than the time it takes for a photograph to be taken (and be sharp), and does not have the blur of a longer exposure.
Anyway keep up the good work!

Phomotion

Very cool. Like photography, it gives the viewer some “time” to look around and see what is going on in the image (or video) and really take it in. To me, it isn’t so much photography as it is video…. maybe I’d call it “De-motioned Video” or something like that, in that the motion in the video has been taken out, or dialed down.

Best of luck with it all.
-pd

Treymation…Japanimation

intriguing….mesmerizing…

Trey –
Love the 3D effect. I had to back it up on a few of the scenes to make sure it wasn’t some sort of Ken Burns effect. I was thinking that this exposes the little pieces of life that slip by so fast and are taken for granted so easily because we simply can’t slow down enough to appreciate them. It’s like those Discovery channel shots where they show flowers opening up quickly or clouds rolling by, but in reverse. Instead of taking a shot every other second to speed things up, you take 50 every second and slow it down. it’s counter intuitive to our modern lifestyle. Beauty is always in the eye as they say, and this is truly beautiful to me.
I would refer to it as Slo-Lifing.

Trey, thanks for your assurance – will i also get the signed print ? is there somebody i can contact to diwscuss, can you mail a contact seperately ?

actually, forget my last comment as it would perceived as “i-motion”… too many “i-this” and “i-that” these days.

Wow… awesome effect. Can’t wait for the tutorial. Nice work!

A play on the totality+Eastern+existential+mystic+ambient+videography: Zenime (prounounced sen-nim-may).

Zenema sounded too, er, scatological.

Bravo! I thoroughly enjoyed it. It would serve as a great foundation for a sequel to Kurozawa’s “Dreams”. The genius was evident; what made it truly epic was the selection of video segments that were stitched/edited coherently. Soundtrack was excellent accompaniment.

Eager to see the HDR tutorial. Thank you for brightening up my day!

- Stealther

What about fast frozen, or anything derived from that. Fazen, frazen, frast, fafo, fastFrozen. Or FaFroMo – fast frozen moment. Or Froment – frozen moment.

Cool effect and it works well with these subjects Trey. Visual arts can be thought of as a magic trick. Sometimes not knowing the answer preserves the aura of amazement with what has been seen. Not really caring what the exact technique is it doesn’t strike me as new. Harold Edgerton revolutionized high speed imaging that created a more extreme version of this playback. Very high speed video played back at normal speed or slower speeds creating slow motion effects. While not the exact same thing in the subject or playback this does remind me of that and his technique. I look forward to learning more about what you’re doing and why it’s capturing your interest.

I don’t know if it is the expressions on people’s faces, the music, the slow motion or all the rain…but the “feel” of the film is kinda “creepy” (for lack of a better word). My guess is that you took all the photos with your D3X, and then processed them all in Photoshop Extended using the animation features??

Very cool…I am gonna call it “Stuckimaation”

You never cease to amaze, Trey…

Stuck in SlowMo

Wonderful documentary show of moments in life in Japan. I like it, an when I watch this slow motion movie, I get very calm. Great product, fantastic way of presentation.
Scenes in movie look, like you used some fluid or fractal effect on it, or is it just compression way on Vimeo.
Thank you for showing and sharing, Trey.

I was about to say that you used a GH1 at 60 fps but then again, after a 2nd look, I reckon the speed is much faster than 60fps. So, the search is for a camera that can shoot videos faster than that. I don’t think any dlsr can shoot that fast. So I’m guessing that it is a JVC Everio X?

how about BTM ? (Breath-taking moment)

Hi Trey, I’m from Italy and it’s the first time I submit a comment.
This “thing” made me think to a famous John Lennon quote:
“Life is what happens to you (people) while you (they) are busy making other plans”. I think I should work on it to find a name that fits the “thing”.
Paolo

Great vid!! Makes me wanna go back to Japan so much. Love the choice of music too.

i really, really like this. it’s very appealing — and i’ve been thinking that i should get a 5DMII to take a series of long photos.

i look forward to your tutorial.

Your video is excellent !

I love this atmosphere…

Thanks for this quick visit to Japan.

Fred

You captured some great moments, I really enjoyed the video.
However, for me it’s more like animation than photography.
I am very interested in the methods and software used for this. I suppose you need a camera which is able to capture at least 4 frames per second or even more, but we will see.
Thanks for sharing this awesome video.

This makes me almost regret of not getting the Casio Exilim EX-F1 the last time I saw it in Tokyo. But that would be yet another gadget to travel with – and I’m seriously trying to cut down on those..

But those that would like to produce similar results I would happily suggest looking into Casio’s Exilim-line, the only downside is that the higher fps you go the lower the resolution gets and the more light you need.

Jan

I don’t think I like it as much as most, but it does have some cool segments. I personally like your HDR photography better. I’m not sure why you say it isn’t video. It looks like video just adjusted (speed wise) quite a bit. I am intrigued at how you accomplish it though. Maybe then I will see why it’s considered more than just video.

Yikes should have been “it’s mo-slow”.

cheers
M

Wow that was very interesting, the shots of the train station were very surreal. Great stuff definitely more interesting than your last video. Keep up the good work!

Excellent – can’t wait for the video. How about:

“Stuck in Time” just to add to your already great site name.

Wouw man, this is some amazing stuff here!

Very inspiring; can’t wait to see more!!

Outstanding!!!!!!!

Looks gorgeous, but isn’t this just slow motion photography? Not really a new invention by any means. Adding music makes it a slow motion music video, again, not new. I’m amazed at how many fanboys and girls are out there, and I’m amazed that none of them have suggested you call this “invention” photography.

I love your work, but seriously.

Go Motion

Amazing stuff; can’t wait to read/see how you did it. Overall, I was reminded of Haiku poetry as I watched the video. Call it Haiku photography.

M A T R I X – - – M O T I O N

I enjoyed the Matrix movies and especially the slow-motion scenes… this is very similar, therefore the name. Just tell me later that I can do this with my D300…… Thanks as always for sharing your talents.

Not to be a jerk, but I don’t think this is anything new at all. Am I missing something? It looked great, but all I saw was a slow motion montage.

You are still the HDR master.

Trey,

To me it is time in flight, Time-flight.

another vote for “flo-mo”

Great, perhaps ‘stillmotion’ would be a good name.

Looks like you’re Stuck in FlowMo (Flowing Motion)

Reminds me of one of part of a movie where everything got closure whether it was good or bad, everyone moves on to the next day or something lie that. It needs a narrator talking about the meaning of life. Cool video.

beautiful; you are definitely ON to something here. it definitely fills a media gap. can you (c) or (r) this before you see it in a car ad or similar ? trash kick, shots from train (w/ people walking) & street scenes really grabbed me. that young girl w/ the look pure ecstasy is all money. the train theme could be a whole episode…that seems very Japanese for me the few times i have been around Japan.

How about calling it “Evography”? It is an EVOlutionary step in merging motion and still photograpgy and it EVOkes a unique feeling in the viewer! Almost feels like I am observing life in a parallel plane of existence to ours.

I’m not sure if anyone who is complaining that that “this is nothing new — it’s just slow motion photography. why don’t you just stick to HDR?” even read the actual post where it said

“Is it ‘new photography’? I don’t know – I think some of this has been available to big movie studios with sophisticated special effects teams and the like. But this can now be done by the common man – it is inexpensive, understandable, and fun.”

I think here the point is that this effect has been democratized, allowing for it to be used by the full creative spectrum of the art community.
The first time somebody stitched together a bunch of digital photos into a little movie, why didn’t somebody say “hey! we already have movie cameras and camcorders, this isn’t new! why don’t you stick to landscape photos?” Because taking what you have and making something that you have not is part of the creative process, both on a microscopic, personal development level, and on a macroscopic, process innovation level.
Given then any number of people will begin experimenting with this technique, it’s quite possible that a ‘new’ style or art form or product or whatever could be developed. But, if everyone who started experimenting with an existing technique were booed off the stage, where would all of today’s haters be?
The answer is nowhere, because the people who don’t see creative potential in something that is a a bit new and a bit old have very little creativity themselves.
And in the end, so what if this video is just a “slow motion music video”, or a retread of Matrix bullet-time? If it didn’t cost a bundle of money to make, as traditional slow motion or bullet-time processes do, then more power to you Trey.

I suggest “Flow Motion”

The shots in the subway where the people look frozen are my favorite.

it’s not cold scientific slow-mo with bullets through apples

True, it is not scientific, but it is still just slow motion video that you have created with your still frame camera. Slow motion video is just shooting a high frame rate and playing it back slower (usually at standard rates).

Regular digital video is recorded at 29.97 FPS (Frames Per Second). Film is shot at 24 FPS. When you take standard DV footage and slow it down, the software editing package duplicates the frames. So if I have 30 frames in 1 second and I stretch it to 2 seconds (increase the duration, slow it down) the software duplicates each frame so that you “see” the first 15 frames in the first second. There are still 30 frames in the 1st second but you have went from displaying each frame once do displaying it twice. The result usually looks very jumpy.

If we shot something at 300 FPS then played it back at normal “speed” we would have 1 second in time visualized over 10 seconds. (300 frames / 30 FPS = 10 seconds)

What you’ve done is shot a short burst of frames and altered the time that they are displayed in video. i.e. you shot 100 frames over 2 or 3 seconds then you display each frame for a specific duration, .25 seconds per frame, and that results in the floating, dreamy, slow motion video without skipped frames. So 100 frames representing a couple seconds of time, then stretched over a specified duration.

I will compliment you on shooting several subjects (the guy kicking trash, the subway, the water dripping down) that lend themselves well to this effect. Maybe the real treat is that you found a way to do this without any $100+ editing packages.

Alright, sorry I am late to the party…

Is it taken with a Casio burst camera?

http://www.macworld.com/article/135594/2008/09/casio.html

Obviously, it is frame rate slowed down. Pure art as always!!!

This video is great! I love it. In this very stressy day I watched it a few times. It slowed me down really well. Make more of those. I want to have a reason to relax!
And, I am looking forward to the tutorial!

I agree with Ryan Scheer comment 116. I really don’t see why this is any different than a slow motion video with a high frames per second? I’m not really that impressed. maybe I’m missing something. I’m curious to see what the “technique” is. My Sony camcorder shoots videos that look like this and I use it to review my golf swing. It basically takes about 3 seconds and stretches it out into about 15 seconds. Cool slow motion video though! Well put together!

http://vimeo.com/6344564
Much better.

Brilliant. Another vote for “stillmotion”. Ganbatte!

I’m surprised more people aren’t commenting on the 3-D effect. What about calling this HDR Photomation?

Hey Trey, It has to be something with “Liquid” in the name. Liquid Motion, LiquidHD, Liquid Framing, liquid something.

Cool stuff. I love Patrick O’Hearn, which made it even more of a treat.

Looking forward to reading about your technique.

Trey,

I hope you are still reading, and I can’t wait to see how you did this, but none of it is possible without an artist’s vision. I love the quality of the images, the smoothness of the video and the soundtrack. I don’t see this as slow motion video, but an extension of still photography. You manage to capture just enough in each clip to show more than the usual instant of time. The name should reflect the still photo roots. How about “Span Shots”?

Ok, at this point I have spent WAY too much time poking around and researching slomo info on the net. But I started thinking….Japan, tech at Nikon cleaning your sensor…..hmmm, testing a new product? Or just a new technique to using the exsisting D90, D300s, and D3s…..hmm, I need to move on and actually get some work done now……your killin’ me!

Paralluxe Motion

I’m guessing it’s not the slow motion you’re talking about. It’s some kind of stabilizing device for the camera. A harness? A gyro?

Going back to my previous suggestions around the “imagery” and “emotion” or “emotiveness” attached to it, I would slightly alter my original suggestion to “immotion” or “immotive” photography.

Wow….very interesting. I’m interested in knowing about this technique

Flow and fluid are common themes in the comments. I second the flowtography/flotography suggestions.

It is sooooo cool (in lack of better words)….I am waiting for the tutorial now….

Very nice picture and music… that is so cool!!!

Fantastic video and great choice of music as well. I look forward to the tutorial. There have been a lot of interesting suggestions about what to call it. I lean toward flowmotion or flowtography. Keep up the great work Trey!

Who said “An advanced enough technology is indistinguishable from magic” Or something like that…Ok Trey here is my best guess.
1: Since you are basically a still photographer addressing still photographers, I’m betting you are shooting with a still camera.
2: since you cannot possibly get the perceived frame rate with a still camera you must be doing some serious software tweening… If I’m right, I had no idea the software had come that far. Back to my first comment; Looks like magic…

P.S I would love to know how this was done

I’ve seen something similar used in some commericials and intros to TV drama and sporting events. The technique I’ve seen is a little different in that it freezes motion (vs. slow motion) but then changes the orientation of the subject by rotating around it allowing you to view from different angles (being able to walk around a frozen subject). I love your technique, but the combined motions (normal speed passing by slow mo subjects)are 2D – would you be able to alter the view angle as your position changes with respect to the subject? As in real life – if you drive past someone walking on the sidewalk, you see them from behind as you approach, from the side as you pass, and from the front as you are ahead of them (rear view mirror). That subtle shift in angular view would be incredible when combined with your motion work – maybe via a slight convex lens? I’d describe your technique as, “Doppler Cinematography”

Ok, my guess is that you shot the video using a high speed frame setting on your fancy camera. Something like 1000 frames per second.

My suggestion for the name to use would be “ParaMotion“.

Impressionistic videostream. I like it very much, whatever you call it!

This is just sooo fascinating and inspiring! Your title “moments between” is a good choice, as I feel that I had some insights on the moments inbetween your shots.
Three names came to my mind for that medium: “Animography” (or short: “animo”) as a combination of animation and photography.
Or “MatriMotion”, as a bow to the special effects from “Matrix”.
OK, 6 Cents is enough.
Gimme more of that!
Uwe

Trey, what makes this great is the selection of images and your “eye” – that is, the ART. The mechanics/technique may not be as groundbreaking or novel as perhaps a decade ago, but your selection of subjects, composition, POV and editing makes this stunning. It must have taken tremendous patience. Music choice was perfect and caused me to go out and buy patrick’s cd. The whole package shows care and attention to detail and again demonstrates why you are in a very elite group of artists. BTW, watching your video caused me to drift a bit and think differently about Hugh Everett’s Correlation Interpretation work – Thank you for sharing this with us.

“Chokin’ the Dog”

I think Captured Motions would be nice!

Expanding on earlier suggestions, the term Flotography has in it two possible interpretations. The first being Flo for flow, as this video had a poetic flow to it. Flo also for float, as the slow lotion does create an impression that the camera is floating. Word amalgamation can come across as corny sometimes though. I agree with an earlier post as well that a more careful music track selection could complement the video better. Given your intelligence, creative intuition and ADD tendencies (analogous to anyway), I wouldn’t put music production outside of your wheelhouse.

Beautiful This caught me and I was mesmerized throughout What an incredible piece of art you’ve created
You’ve most likely named this wonderful creation by now, but I still thought I’d contribute to your request: Neovoyarism or imoyarism

Yes my friend, strongly recommended!

Afterthought: kinematic photography, akin to kinematic typography.

Not kinetic photography, that looks risky.

[bowing out]

I realize you are a busy guy, but what is the time frame on the tutorial? Are we talking weeks, months…years? I have some killer ideas for this, but just need to know how.

Thanks

Hmmm, after much thought, I would call the process, Small-cat-falls-off-roof-and-lands-on-all-fours-because-it-is-happening-in-other-time,
or, SCFORALOAFBIIHIOT. It’s really easy to say if you practice saying it a couple-hundred-times! Great work! Wonderful site! Always leaves me drooling, and wishing I were somewhere else.

Hey Trey! Great video! I watched it several times over the past week and can’t stop drooling over its awesomeness!

Since you did not decide on the name for the technique yet, I thought I’d give it a shot

I’d call it SUBSTRATUM

Meaning:
- The characterless substance that supports attributes of reality.
- The material of which something is made and from which it derives its special qualities.

Hope you use it

Some of us have jobs and couldn’t catch it. We’ve only waited a month to find out. How about posting it already!

I got overwhelmed after reading the first 100 comments, so sorry if someone already brought this up!

I’m not very knowledgeable about technology… from my guesses, though, we could do this kinda thing with a camcorder that has ultra FPS, and then just slow it down in a simple video editing tool.

But are those kinda camcorders really expensive? If so, then Trey’s statement, “this can now be done by the common man – it is inexpensive,” then there’s clearly some other technique here, and I’m super curious about it, coz my brain can’t stretch. OH WAIT, perhaps the camcorder isn’t super high speed FPS, but there’s some morphing technology that “fills in the frames” between the actually captured frames?

At any rate, get out with your tutorial Trey!

Doesn’t the Samsung sc hmx20c hd-camcorder shoot 300 fps? I use the Casio EX-F1 to do a lot of slo mo 300 fps sports photography clips, but fairly low rez.

This is really nice. What about slow motion tableaux.

great work! i like it

You are an Artist for sure! Love your work. It grabs you and makes it difficult to stop watching. Enjoyed this very much. I could see this in a museum wall piece for everyone to watch and stare. = )

Or Flow-mo….

Awesome work, BTW….

I don’t know what to call it. But it is very interesting.
Our fast paced Life slowed down to a more enjoyable speed.