Flight paths of birds

[Donna]

http://vimeo.com/32363204  Very cool experiment by Dennis Hlynsky, posted by Kate St. John

If birds left a visual trail in the sky, what would their flight paths look like?

Dennis Hlynsky, an artist and professor at the Rhode Island School of Design, has been experimenting with this for several years.  He became interested in birds when “During the winter of 2008 I left the house in the wee early morning looking for anything to record with my new pocket video camera. I began to notice life above.“  Since then he’s been filming birds and animals, then using Adobe After Effects to convert their motion to dotted trails.  Fast-moving birds become open dashes, slow-moving ones are thick lines.

Starling videos are especially interesting because the flocks collect a few birds at a time and flee in a tightly packed blob.  Click on the screenshot above to watch Hlynsky’s video “data in data outâ€� of starlings on wires in East Providence.

[MAK]

That was pretty neat! 

[Shaky]

I want to learn how to do that.

[Donna]

I want to learn how to do that.

lock the camera down. Shoot with foreground background contrast. Use time effects in After Effects. It's really simple.... oh and shoot a lot and hope something beautiful occurs

I don't know what that means but.....does it help?   http://www.auzgnosis.com/akns/get_akns.htm This was on his site too Shaky! It's very cool however he does it!

http://vimeo.com/84361066

[Shaky]

I want to learn how to do that.

lock the camera down. Shoot with foreground background contrast. Use time effects in After Effects. It's really simple.... oh and shoot a lot and hope something beautiful occurs

I don't know what that means but.....does it help?   http://www.auzgnosis.com/akns/get_akns.htm This was on his site too Shaky! It's very cool however he does it!

http://vimeo.com/84361066

Yes, it helps. Thanks.

[Donna]

I want to learn how to do that.

lock the camera down. Shoot with foreground background contrast. Use time effects in After Effects. It's really simple.... oh and shoot a lot and hope something beautiful occurs

I don't know what that means but.....does it help?   http://www.auzgnosis.com/akns/get_akns.htm This was on his site too Shaky! It's very cool however he does it!

http://vimeo.com/84361066

Yes, it helps. Thanks.

 

[carla]

Wow............love the starlings....