Still Life #10m

These Still Lifes are a series of videos exploring natural light as it changes and moves over time.  They are further enhanced using image processing.  A still life is filmed over 2 or more hours as the sun travels on its westward path.  Currently, there are 161 different Still Lifes.

This is one of the full-length Still Lifes.  It was shot in real time.  If you don’t want to watch it over 3 hours and 20 minutes, you can see the 10-minute version Still Life #10m-1 (Detail)

The image-processing involves applying several different kinds of visual effects one after another so that each alters the original image, but also each in turn changes the way the previous effect alters the image.  The processes combine to create the image you see.

In this example, it’s almost as if there are two films playing at once – the unmoving pitchers and bottles and the shimmering light that surrounds them.  Our brains can’t process all the data that our eyes collect, but light is shimmering around us all the time, constantly moving, the image processing brings that out, enhances it, making it evident and beautiful.