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[obviously: post is in my capacity as an academic, views do not reflect those of my employer etc] There’s been years of claims suggesting that video AI technology is making big chunks of video creation redundant. I’m testing this by testing the tooling in-depth to see how it can help execute a creative brief in [ ] The post Production Diary: Using Generative Video to Complete a Creative Brief…
Build log describing on how to make a small 3D stereoscopic camera lens for fuji-X cameras. The post Iterating on DIY plenoptic camera lenses appeared first on bhautik.org .
Overview I ve been making tilt-shift lenses for a while now, and they re a bunch of fun to make and shoot with. I don t think I need to sell you on the creative possibilities of this type of photography and videography. However if you want to know more about the art and science of tilt-shift you [ ] The post The Tilt-O-Matic: a 3D printed Tilt-Shift adapter appeared first on bhautik.org .
For my day job at Adobe Research I ve been researching tools and workflows for processing VR-180/3D-180 video. Early development has been dominated by high-end, cinema-grade rigs but there s an unaddressed, consumer-grade market that is emerging. To get a better idea of this, I ve been getting out and about shooting with these new rigs. I wanted [ ] The post Shooting VR180 using a portable rig…
I chat with Adobe Life about Adobe s vision for VR Video. Full article is here: http://blogs.adobe.com/adobelife/2018/02/21/bhautik-joshi/ The post A Peek into the Work of a Virtual Reality Research Engineer appeared first on bhautik.org .
Lunar eclipse and Supermoon from San Francsico, 31 Jan 2018 Solar Eclipse from San Francsico, 17 Aug 2017 Supermoon from San Francisco, 13 Nov 2016 Comet PANSTARRS as seen in the early evening sky over the Mission District, San Francisco, 13 Mar 2013 Venus Transit from Nicasio, CA, 12 Jun 2012 Solar Eclipse from Nicasio, [ ] The post Astrophotography shenanigans appeared first on bhautik.org .
Preamble In October 2017 I co-chaired a panel with Elly Nattinger on VR Dance Films at the San Francisco Dance film festival. Here we explored some of the technical and creative challenges involved in contemporary video, and we were joined by three amazing VR filmmakers Aaron Rhodes, Ceclila Sweet-Coll and Luke Willis. Panel Video [ ] The post VR Panel at the 2017 San Francisco Dance Film Festival…
The Project Come Swim is a 2017 short film that explores impressionism. It was Kristen Stewart s directorial debut, premiering at Sundance 2017 and screening at Cannes 2017. For my part in the project, we took the novel approach of using Neural Style Transfer a recently developed artificial-intelligence driven technique to literally redraw key [ ] The post Come Swim appeared first on bhautik.org .
A two-part interview with Jeff Hunt of Storied: SF, where I talk about 10 years as a photographer in San Francisco. Part 1:https://www.storiedsf.com/episodes/episode-3-part-1-bhautik-joshis-view-of-bay-bridge-construction Part 2:https://www.storiedsf.com/episodes/episode-3-part-2-bhautik-joshis-trip-to-a-former-missile-site The post Interview with Storied: SF appeared first on bhautik.org .
Introduction ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ rendered in the style of Picasso using deep neural network based style transfer. The cubist style had mixed results in the transfer; you can see that big empty blocks of colour didn’t map coherently between the frames. It screened at the Another Hole In The Head Film Festival in 2017 [ ] The post 2001: A Picasso Odyssey appeared first on bhautik.org .