Slo-mo rowing

The slow motion effect on the phone is cool, but I rarely have any real use for it, However, on a recent recovery walk after the latest round of chemotherapy, I saw some of the University rowing team practising on the Union Canal near Harrison Park. So I nipped up onto the bridge and switched into slo-mo mode to capture this:

Vid - Slow Motion Rowing

Apart from the interesting visuals, the sound is also slowed down, so turn the volume up – you can hear passing traffic, birds, the splashes of the oars, but all slowed down, and about halfway through the ding, ding, ding of a passing cycllist’s bell, but here deepened and drawn out by the slow-mo effect, giving an unusual sound.

Glide

Now this is a pretty cool effect: Graeme Taylor ran his digital camera at 210 frames per second, but plays it back at the more regular 30fps, so one second of real time becomes stretched to seven seconds of film time. As BoingBoing notes the effect is like a smooth take on ‘bullet time’. As the train slows down further you start to get very small, slow movement added, the result is seriously cool: