The handiness of the iPad with the touch screen and all the apps may make it a killer device for email and Angry Birds, but it's also pretty sweet for light painting. Paint messages and images in the air by sweeping the iPad in front of a camera with a sloooow shutter speed.
Sound good? Let's do it.
Sound good? Let's do it.
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OK, let's get to light painting with an iPad. Here's what you need:
Note: I'm sure cool stuff can be done with an Android device as well, but I don't have one. Feel free to post about any relevant Android apps in the comments.
- iPad. An iPhone or iPod Touch will also work.
- Camera with shutter speeds of 10 seconds or longer and a manual mode. Bulb mode is handy.
- Tripod
- An app or two
- A friend to help out. Optional.
Note: I'm sure cool stuff can be done with an Android device as well, but I don't have one. Feel free to post about any relevant Android apps in the comments.
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It made me think about an older programming project i was working on (a simplistic J2ME light paint application for my goog old mobil phone (nokia 6630)).
I lost the ability to build stuff for my phone about 1.5 years ago when the win xp on my PC died. But your instructable made me bring up all the stuff on my (no so new) ubuntu.
I'm still struggling to bring up cool photographs (long time exposure is tricky ...), but the attached picture (showing an "O") is one of the first i made with my newly build J2ME application.
When i find the time to polish it Iĺ think about opening it to a wider audience ...
It's for playing around with old school 8-bit character holographs. It's not a professional photography tool. It's not a "light painting" tool. It's just 99 cents worth of geeking out.
8-bit is retro old school style. No frills. Being stuck in caps seems quite fitting. Using keyboard symbols for your character reference a la ms dos is true to theme. 8-bit letters & characters are meant to have choppy edges and blurred colors. It displays in columns because it's working pixels like a bada** graph paper pad inside your ipad. Past+future.
Personally, I think that's awesome. My fun dial is way up, yo.
Quite inspiring even though I don't own one, my journalist friend got kicked out of a press confrence for asking "What does it do, other than being an oversized Ipod?"
This IPAD project some londers did is what got me interested in light graffiti
http://vimeo.com/15027389
That said, the "oversized iPod" argument is basically what I've heard from lots of people until they've had some time to play with it and then they don't say that any more. With 14+ million iPads out there and everyone else trying to catch up with their own tablets, it's pretty clear that the format is here to stay.
They lack the vision to see the truth, that an iPod is actually just an undersized iPad ;^)
The two are obviously intended for different audiences and purposes. Who would buy an iPad just because they though an iPod is too small? While I'll concede that iPods may be purchased because the iPad was too expensive, that's an issue different than size.
While it might not be obvious after just 5 minutes, switching your development target from iPod to iPad will quickly make a huge change in the type of applications you can create. Saying it's just a bigger iPod dismisses the added potential the iPad provides to developers.
If your 2007 1st gen iPod Touch and iOS 3 have all the memory, speed, and screen quality that you need, that means it's a good choice for you. I don't see how that means the iPad "absolutely fails to bring anything new to the table" Is it possible that others have different needs and expectations than you do?
Oh, the irony :P
now all you need is a nice flash sync to include yourself in the photo.
waiting to my iphone to be delivered in a few weeks then will post my trials here.
Of course, this is meant to be one more trick in the light painter's arsenal. Add it to the camera flash, the handheld camera flash (for side flashes), LEDs, flashlights, sparklers, lighters, gels, and whatever else.
Hope you have fun with it.
Is photo paint available for the ipod touch?
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/penki/id402699957?mt=8