Guys, the last thing I want to do is cause internecine arguments over technique!
Keith is correct when he says he understands the aesthetics behind my visual interests in motion, and we have much enjoyed some of the same tv series. As far as I can remember, all the “Daidos” are single exposures, with no second or third image ever sandwiched on; for sure, I try to isolate the main subject and distress the overall look; that’s the whole point. Though I know how to get to the result I get, I’d hate to have to try to repeat any specific one - it all probably depends on how good or otherwise a day I’m having.
Thinking of the technique that Keith’s suggested leads me to thinking about using a copy-stand and an iPhone as recording device. Unfortunately, the wall-mounted Durst enlarger column that was occasionally used for copying and/or projecting images is long gone… it went, along with the rest of my darkroom stuff, as a gift to a local school. It was painful to see that almost unused equipment vanish, all due to the water supply so bad it defeated my filtering system. Never did enjoy spotting very much. On the other hand, it did leave me with the now forty-or-so-year-old Carrier air con unit I’d installed for darkroom purposes. Almost never used since, I was surprised to discover it still worked last week, when I attempted to survive the heatwave effects of this year’s violent summer. The original hand control unit died years ago, and seemed to be obsolete, then quite by chance, the guy who came to fix the electric cooker a couple of years go had an alternative hand unit in his van: it worked!
Anyway, back on the main thrust of my original post, the hope was to make use of the video capability of iPhones as simply, inexpensively as possible - hopefully without the learning curve that starting to use digital stills cameras brought in tow! The innocence we sometimes enjoy!
