Video: 5 days / 5 minutes in Iceland

[ourmaninkorea]

A recent photography/video experiment:
I collected some 2000 photographs taken by 25 people on a group tour in Iceland. I put the pictures (with EXIF data) on a scaled time line (1 minute for every day) and every photographer received a specific key on the piano.
"Steinway on the Rocks" or a "Rhapsody in Ice Blue". When listening with closed eyes to the piano, I relive the trip.

Video: https://vimeo.com/147293360
This is the making of: https://vimeo.com/145619857

[John Geerts]

A very interesting experiment!    And a refreshing way to show thousands of photographs 

[Jakov Minić]

What a great idea!
It must have taken hours to edit and put all the pieces together!
Well done!

[Frank Fremerey]

Jakov: I know Willem for a long time. His works usually take days or weeks to assemble.

After watching it, it is to hectic for me. I had to watch the other two videos offered: a calm waterfall and a knife shooting

[Erik Lund]

It's a very interesting idea! For me personally it's too short display time for some of the images, but kudos for the work!

[Bjørn Rørslett]

The concept is intriguing and refreshing, for sure. However, but the disparity of image quality and style and the lack of a more coherent story line makes watching quite tiresome. A one-time viewing more than suffices ...

[Akira]

This is a brilliant project!  I like the moments where someone sees beautiful scenery and takes lots of pictures in a short period of time.  Thanks for sharing and inspiring!

[Akira]

The concept is intriguing and refreshing, for sure. However, but the disparity of image quality and style and the lack of a more coherent story line makes watching quite tiresome. A one-time viewing more than suffices ...

Maybe it would be interesting to use pictures taken during any NG gatherings?

[Bjørn Rørslett]

Could be done if somebody took the time and effort to write a story board *before* the Event.

[Øivind Tøien]

While a creative idea, a problem with the concept is that the best parts where a lot of images are captured by different photographers over a short time just pass by in an indiscernible  blur, while the more boring parts where an image is only shot now and then are shown for a long time.

[elsa hoffmann]

well done on your project.
If it was an experiment - it means you are willing to make changes to it next time.
Thats why I do experiments. One seldom gets it 100% right the first time - so keep going.
My thoughts were that some of the images went by too quick - and transition could be more smooth.
Perhaps a more gentle tune also
but those are my thoughts and if it is not what you had in mind  - its also okay

[Akira]

My second though is that the technical or artistic quality of each image provided by the participant may not be critically important for this particular experiment/project.  I don't think it is necessarily "a slide show" type of work.  Rather it could be a time lapse of collective flow of thought of the individuals from different parts of the world in a certain time span.

[Bjørn Rørslett]

Agree to that notion. However, without any underlying story board such agglomerated exhibition easily tends to towards white noise.

[Frank Fremerey]

Willem: You might consider element like riterdando and accellerando to cope with the busy times of day...

[ourmaninkorea]

What a great idea!
It must have taken hours to edit and put all the pieces together!
Well done!

Thanks, Jakov, it took two weeks, actually ;-)