I suddenly had a light bulb moment this morning and realised how these were produced. So I went and bought three little mirrors 6"x4" and played with a roll of duct tape the puppy had chewed up. Tremendous fun! Total cost: £1.50, possibilities quite a few.
I followed a mixture of the information below:
" ...So this photographer Alvin Langdon Coburn comes around and attaches himself to the movement. He takes photos through three pieces of glass ... essentially a prism, to capture an image from multiple combined perspectives.
Many credit him as the first true abstract photographer.
So how do we recreate vortographs on our own?
One is to use prisms. Another is to simply create a triangle of mirrors that extend from your lens, and photograph through them. I'm guessing you'll need to play with angles here to get the right ones ..."
Northy has also shown her method in great detail if you search for 'vortograph' on the 365 site.
so you say you're going to upload a helpful video to youtube so we can all make one????! fabulous subject for this treatment. i would love to have a go but am so unbelievably impractical it would never work
@pistache Clare, if I can do it, you certainly can! It helps if you tilt the bottom of the triangle away from the subject. I didn't attach my diy contraption to my camera, just held it in front of the orchid and shot through the triangle. Hope this helps and encourages you to have a go!
This is great FB - After reading your other post I had a look online too and was thinking of trying this same thing. It's so good - I hope you don't mind if I have a go when I get a chance? I was also wondering if you'd a different result if the tube was at a slight angle to the camera and the object?
@robz Course not Rob, and yes, I'm sure you would get varying results. If you hold your mobile screen right underneath your lens and look through the viewfinder at your subject you can tilt your mobile screen to reflect the image you're looking at. If you're taking a shot of say a house with a cloudy background, you'll get the clouds reflected on the mobile screen. When you take the shot it looks as if the house is floating on a cloudbank. Just a wee snippet of useless info!
@fbailey Hi FB - I'll have to borrow Errol's phone and have a go at your suggestion - my phone's pretty old and the camera is pretty bad. I just need a bit of spare time to play!!! Thanks for the tip! :)
Oh I gave this a try a couple...maybe a few...years ago..it is such fun...I think my mirrors are at the bottom of a camera case somewhere...must dig them out
@pistache you could manage it Clare...when I tried I used 3 small rectangular mirrors...can't remember where I got them...they're the kind you might find in a makeup purse....I stuck them together with blutack haha..it was a bit dodgy but worked
This is fab - I love the ideas people share on 365. I had never heard of vortograph but it is on the list for the future. Thanks for the other info too.
February 2nd, 2019
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