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	Photography: Share, Learn, Create in the Photography.com Community
		Auto Backlighting Control (ABC) refers to a feature on a camera that automatically adjusts a camera’s settings to accommodate the backlighting of a given frame.
		Photographers should only turn on the auto backlighting control if they want to accentuate the quality of backlighting in their pictures.
		If the backlight within the camera’s lens is dull (and the film is of normal speed), then the auto backlighting control will widen the aperture, make the flash brighter and extend the shutter timer.
	www.photography.com /topics/auto-backlight-control (289 words)

	Motion control - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Motion control is a sub-field of automation, in which the position and/or velocity of machines are controlled using some type of device such as a hydraulic pump, linear actuator, or an electric motor, generally a servo.
		Motion control is an important part of robotics and CNC machine tools, however it is more complex than in the use of specialized machines, where the kinematics are usually simpler.
		A motion controller to generate the set points (the desired output) and close the position feedback loop.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Motion_control (417 words)

	Photography - MSN Encarta
		Photography, method of picture making developed in the early 19th century, based on principles of light, optics, and chemistry.
		The word photography comes from Greek words and means “drawing with light.” Photographs serve as scientific evidence, conveyers of news, historical documents, works of art, and records of family life.
		Nearly all forms of photography are based on the fact that certain chemicals are photosensitive—that is, they change in some way when exposed to light.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761595618/Photography.html (1423 words)

	The 7 Uses of Motion Control
		Controlling a camera with such lens by hand is very complex, but by using a motion control rig, one can program in the move very quickly and then get the shot.
		The motion control system moves the motion picture camera¹s position from a start position to the first position of the camera array, at which point the camera array is triggered.
		Unlike the earlier mentioned uses of motion control, it is not used to achieve something that was previously impossible or difficult, rather it uses the previous uses of motion control together with timecode to achieve the effects specifically in synchronization to sound.
	www.mrmoco.com /Newsletter/7_uses_of_motion_control.htm (3049 words)

	Motion control photography - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The first suggestions that this was possible came about when John Whitney pioneered several motion techniques using old anti-aircraft analog computers connected to servos to control the motion of lights and lit targets.
		The downside to motion control is that it requires considerable programming in order to make the camera move the way you want.
		The first use of motion control photography in video games was by Stormfront Studios in Eagle Eye Mysteries, produced by Scott Orr and published by Electronic Arts in 1993.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Motion_control_photography (453 words)

	Trade Secrets of Motion Control
		Motion control is a technique and a method, not a particular device.
		Sometimes motion control rigs are small, like a tabletop graphics "down-shooter", and sometimes they are huge--big enough to throw around the heaviest of cameras, full-size small boats, and large model helicopters.
		Use the motion control system for the shots that really have to be perfect, or complex, or repeatable over multiple passes.
	www.vidpro.org /motion.htm (1301 words)

	p.t. anderson films - cigarettes and red vines
		the idea behind motion control photography is that the camera can perform the same movement twice, which is very useful for compositing two shots where the camera is moving.
		the motion control aspect of the video is apparent as the camera moves through the window to see fiona apple in front of a mirror, which the camera is not present in.
		the shots that follow are a combination of high speed photography of the set being destroyed and footage of fiona shot with the same camera movement only without the action in the background.
	www.cigarettesandredvines.com /film.php?id=F04 (737 words)

	Macworld: Review: Motion 1.0
		But after using Motion for just a few days, you may be surprised at how much of your compositing and graphics workload you will choose to move to this excellent new contender.
		Though Motion provides a typical timeline-based interface for layering and animating elements in a composite, its interface is more compelling because of the addition of behaviors.
		Motion can’t always muster a full 30 frames per second, but even if playback drops to half that speed, it’s still good enough to judge the overall impact of an effect, to synchronize settings on multiple layers, or to adjust your composite to fit a voice-over.
	www.macworld.com /2004/12/reviews/motion/index.php (1071 words)

	UrtonArt: History of Photography
		Some painters dubbed the new invention "the foe-to-graphic art." A number of artists turned to photography for their livelihood, while others cashed in on the fact that the images were in monochrome, and began coloring them in.
		Photography would eventually change the purpose of painting from one which focused on outward facts of reality to more emphasis on personal vision.
		One of the greatest pioneers of motion photography was Eadweard Muybridge.
	www.eyeconart.net /history/photography.htm (2898 words)

	Macworld: Review: Motion 2
		Motion still lacks a true 3-D environment—you can’t set multiple cameras or move objects within 3-D space—but when combined with basic 2-D motion, the Basic 3D filter allows you to simulate many of the 3-D operations and movements that you’d get in a true 3-D compositing program.
		Motion 1 had excellent particle filters, and Motion 2 builds on these with dozens of new particle presets that give you a huge assortment of natural and stylized particle effects.
		Motion isn’t an After Effects killer, but it can replace After Effects for many motion-graphics and compositing tasks, and it does so with a working environment that is tremendously superior.
	www.macworld.com /2005/07/reviews/finalcutmotion/index.php (1772 words)

	stepper motor control systems and controller cards by oes
		The motion parameters can also manually be entered in a user friendly control panel or may be read from an ASCII file.
		The controller is capable of moving a group of motors via controlling the movement of a joystick or trackball.
		The speed of the motor is proportional to the tilt angle of the joystick.
	www.oesincorp.com /motioncontrolproducts.htm (347 words)

	Industrial Light and Magic, special effects have taken on a whole new dimension.
		Some of it is animation, some of it is motion control photography, some of it is in matte paintings where you create an illusion that there is something there that isn't.
		Stop motion was the old way of moving film creatures and monsters.
		"What developed was a process called go motion photography where the actual armatures, the inside of his little puppet or model, is moved by mechanical motors so while the shutter is open and you're exposing a frame there's actual movement.
	www.darlenearden.com /artlicleILM.htm (1745 words)

	ShutterFreaks Stopping the Motion
		Pan is where you track the motion with the camera and then, for example, the Indy road is blurred, but the car is stopped.
		Most great motion sports shots are taken wide open for faster shutter speed or within a stop or two of f2.8 to blur the background and focus specifically on the subject.
		If the subject is separated from the background (such as the subject on the near side of the field) and you have a telephoto lens, you’ll have a shallow depth of field and a dramatic effect for your shot.
	www.shutterfreaks.com /Tips/StoppingMotion.htm (1547 words)

	Discovery Pictures - Multimedia and Press (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Thermal Imaging is a form of heat-sensitive photography that reveals the different temperatures of areas of the body.
		Time-Slice Photography freezes a moment in time by utilizing dozens of cameras set at different angles to capture a single moment.
		Motion-Control Photography uses a computerized camera to guarantee precise repetitive moves, which allowed the filmmakers to seamlessly show the changes in Heather's body.
	thehumanbodyfilm.com /multimedia/imagery/imagingtechniques.html (414 words)

	VFX HQ: ALIEN RESURRECTION
		Lewis said, "Even a 1/4" move on a motion control track is death, so we couldn't afford that kind of movement.
		Motion control setups were not limited to miniature photography.
		Because the shot would be pieced together with multiple passes, Joe Lewis explained, "We built the motion control system for that to use on set, in real time.
	www.vfxhq.com /1997/alien4-how6.html (556 words)

	Apple - Shake - Lord of the Rings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Nugent explains that much of the blue screen photography on the film was completed fairly early in the production.
		Since I arrived to WETA just as principal photography was beginning, I was able to get a few scans early on and then as Jackson was zeroing in the cuts, we were able to get to work,” he says.
		Motion control photography was used extensively on both the live action and miniature stages.
	www.apple.com /la/shake/stories/lotr/lotr2.html (1090 words)

	Modern CG FX vs Tried-and-True Motion Control with Models - StarshipBuilder.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		ILM mastered the art of motion control photography that resulted in ships moving across the screen in a highly realistic manner.
		One thing you have to remember about people preferrng the older MC shots is that for a long time their limited range of motion, lighting and speeds, no matter how well calculated, became the accepted 'reality' of motion of certain types of objects, on screen.
		Typically, with a motion control shoot a crew sets up the model, lights it and then the camera pathway is roughed in and further refined.
	www.starshipbuilder.com /forums/showthread.php?t=1314 (4694 words)

	bsVfx, Inc.Digital Compositing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This shot, which takes place in the future, was accomplished using a motion controlled camera system, a large outdoor blue screen and a superb matte painting (by Kevin Mack).
		- This shot employed many techniques.....Motion Control photography was used to capture a "clean" pass of the Nicolas Cage dummy, uncut.
		The water bottle was shot using motion control for multiple passes.
	www.bsvfx.com /serv06.htm (660 words)

	Smash Factory
		Done entirely with miniature sets and motion-control photography, Smash Factory is a three-minute blast of total sensory overload.
		Also, most of these vehicles have relatively smooth motions and are generally not in contact with any solid surface which makes it easier to program.
		It was much more difficult than the generally smooth motion profiles of the average "flying" film.
	www.trudang.com /simulatr/smashsim.html (551 words)

	HP Labs : News : Archives : Bill Holland: Picturing the Future
		Holland was a teenager when he became the first person to automate motion-control photography by wiring a computer to a camera track, helping to pioneer a new type of film special effects.
		In slit-scanning, the camera operator photographs artwork through a slit in front of the camera lens, then moves the art and the camera as each exposure is made to produce controlled "streaking" and other distortion effects.
		It was 1974, and the first time anyone had created a programmable motion control system.
	www.hpl.hp.com /news/2002/jan-mar/holland.html (1026 words)

	Canon
		The arrival of 24-frame digital motion picture production systems over the past half-decade has given rise to an ever-expanding deployment of these systems for program origination in television, television commercials, and moviemaking.
		Increasing numbers of producers, directors, directors of photography, and editors are embracing digital options (as they also continue to work with motion picture film).
		We have more recently branched into a separate line of portable cine lenses tailored to the specific stated requirements of film directors of photography (DPs).
	www.usa.canon.com /html/industrial_bctv/digital_motion_pictures.shtml (195 words)

	KODAK: A day in the life of The Human Body - Print Friendly Version
		It was clear that the most amazing images would come from David's photography, so my biggest challenge was to provide the set-up to his material.
		In the finished shot, the actress grabs the fork and as it goes up to her mouth the camera effectively tracks from the fork, but we had to be careful we didn't drive the contraption into the back of her throat."
		Tracking closely over the body with the macro end of a 3 1/2-foot long bore scope on a camera which was fixed to a motion control head, proved a challenge in terms of shooting and manoeuvrability.
	www.kodak.com /US/en/motion/newsletters/inCamera/july2002/bodyP.shtml (1169 words)

	HNR Presents Star Wars: A Look Back
		He is an eight-year governor of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences® and has been the chairman of the Visual Effects Branch since its inception in 1995.
		For example, if a ship flies towards you, heels around and slides into a turn, what you would see on a frame-by-frame basis is a lot of motion blur, because each frame gets about a 1/50th of a second exposure, and 1/50th is not fast enough to freeze each frame.
		The motion control system we built was ironically put together using technology that had been developed for the space race, which was solid-state circuitry.
	www.hollywoodnorthreport.com /documents/starwarsedlund3.php (4339 words)

	Cinefex 20 - 2010
		Nearly a decade would pass before Star Wars and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, using computerized motion control photography and advanced compositing techniques, would begin to close the technological gap established by 2001.
		When Arthur C. Clarke published his much anticipated sequel 2010: Odyssey Two in 1982, it was reasonable to assume that it would soon find its way onto the screen, with the full force of contemporary state-of-the-art movie magic brought to bear on its complex effects requirements.
		Rising to the challenge were producer-writer-director Peter Hyams, futurist designer Syd Mead and visual effects supervisor Richard Edlund.
	www.cinefex.com /backissues/issue20.html (186 words)

	Hollywood VFX Master, Richard Edlund, Talks About His Work On The Original Battlestar Galactica
		Visual effects maestro, Richard Edlund, was instrumental in developing the latter two—computerized motion control and the bluescreen matting process—to solve the complex visual effects problems that the first Star Wars opus presented.
		Robert: Your advancement of bluescreen and motion control technology for the original Star Wars trilogy and for the original Battlestar Galactica was nothing short of astounding at the time.
		I think that how this is ultimately going to be done—and it will be done—is to first find actors who can precisely duplicate the mannerisms of the person in question, and then use facial motion-capture techniques to transfer their performance to an accurate CG likeness of the person you’re trying to recreate.
	www.hollywoodnorthreport.com /documents/bgedlund.php (3529 words)

	Professional Motion Control “Photography” with After Effects and Photoshop (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Documentary-style motion control photography is becoming increasingly popular for use in all styles of video production.
		By combining Photoshop with Adobe After Effects, extremely high-quality motion control is possible.
		This is one of two key differences between building your motion control (MOCO) in After Effects instead of another system.
	www.creativecow.net /articles/harrington_richard/doc_style/index.html (965 words)

	John Paulson Resume
		Specific skills are: developing programs with artists, historians, curators, experts, content specialists, and production partners; creating and managing production budgets; planning, supervising, and directing location shooting; conducting interviews; scriptwriting; managing all aspects of post-production including graphic design; motion control photography; sound design and mix; picture mastering; color-correction; and captioning.
		As a director of photography and lighting cameraman, Mr.
		Paulson is skilled in the technical and creative aspects of motion picture and video photography.
	www.mindspring.com /~jrpaulson/Resume.htm (453 words)

	Star Wars: Community \| ILM Visual Effects Wizards at Celebration III
		There he built a motion control system from an Oxberry animation stand, an Apple II computer, a CNC milling machine controller, and a bunch of industrial surplus stepper motors.
		Impressed by his student film, ILM hired Knoll as a technical assistant for motion control photography.
		Knoll soon took up computer graphics as a hobby, then teamed up with his brother Thomas, who was working on his Doctoral Thesis in computer vision at the University of Michigan.
	www.starwars.com /community/event/celebration/news20050330.html (523 words)

	Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone at Hollywood.com
		At Hogwarts, he finds the home and family he has never had.
		Director of Photography - 2nd unit director of photography (2nd Unit)
		Director of Photography - Model Director of Photography
	www.hollywood.com /movie/Harry_Potter_and_the_Sorcerers_Stone/415881 (513 words)

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