We were asked by to produce a bullet time shot of Rafael Nadal using our rig in mid air as he was swiping a tennis ball. We offered them out 42 camera rig and they said it was too small, so upgraded it to an 80 camera rig.

 

We got the go ahead on a Friday morning - 23rd of September 2009, we then had to buy 36 cameras, 500 connecting wires, have the clamping system machined and built for this specific rig by an engineering company and set off on monday the 26th morning for a 2 day drive to Spain to do the shoot. This was an extremely hectic weekend, but proof that almost anything can be done if needed.

 

We arrived in Spain late on Tuesday evening late... at 6am we were picked up and taken to the studio where a purpose built court had been produced, the rig/structure was supposed to be ready for us when we got there but due to delays it wasn't, so we sat for 15hrs until 9pm when it was finally ready. From that moment on, we worked until 3am, then went back to the hotel for a shower and slept until 6am lol, then back at the studio until 12am, then back to the hotel until 4am and back to the studio to have it all ready for Rafael turning up at 10am on the Friday morning.

Below are some images that we took whilst setting up.

Bullet time photography within the Tate Britain London.

Hover your mouse over the movie (when it has fully loaded), and whilst hovering over, press the mouse button, whilst depressed move your mouse to spin the movie back and forth.

You MUST have the free Quick Time plugin installed and working to view this movie. It wont work with any other kind of plugin.

On the 3rd of October 2008, i was asked by Nexus Productions to help them produce a Time Slice / Bullet Time exhibition in the main foyer of The Tate Britain London.

With a joint effort between myself, Nexus Productions, Chris Breeze and The Tate, we produced a system which produced an effect that represents the Francis Bacon painting, "Study after Velázquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X" (as below) in Bullet Time Photography.

We used 15 DLSR cameras, wired them up to 2 servers which downloaded the images instantly as the images were being taken, those 2 servers then fed to a shared folder on another computer, which created a new directory on the fly as a each new set of images was taken.

On the 3rd of October 2008, i was asked by Nexus Productions to help them produce a Time Slice / Bullet Time exhibition in the main foyer of The Tate Britain London.

With a joint effort between myself, Nexus Productions, Chris Breeze and The Tate, we produced a system which produced an effect that represents the Francis Bacon painting, "Study after Velázquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X" (as below) in Bullet Time Photography.

Iqons fashion, the worlds largest fashion community chaired by Suran Goonatilake OBE (who received his OBE for conceiving this community, commissioned myself and enamul.co.uk (a close friend of mine) to produce an award winning interactive video, that allowed you to move the models clothing around in an immersing manner.