Extreme Photography
The focus of Extreme Photography will be stretching the limits of what one can do with images. Hacking camera software, time lapse photography, high speed video, underwater photography, taking apart cameras and physically modifying them, tricks with exposure and speed and zoom are all part of the experience. The only limits will be the imagination of the students and instructors.
Part of the class will be about observation. We all think we see everything we look at, but when time is modified we find that there is much more going on around us than we realize. We will use cameras to help us see.
About the Instructors
Ed Moriarty is an instructor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Edgerton Center. He helps to support over 20 MIT student clubs and teams that are actively engaged in engineering activities ranging from building and racing Formula SAE cars, to Solar Electric Vehicles that compete in the World Solar Challenge in Australia; from a multimillion dollar biosatellite to study the effects of Martian gravity on mammals to Autonomous Underwater Vehicles. He mentors a FIRST Robotics team (#97) and is involved with numerous Boston area high schools to bring hands-on, project-based learning into the mainstream of public education. He has taught a Saturday engineering outreach program for over 15 years where students work on technologies ranging from Lego Robotics, to Underwater ROV's, to interactive art. Ed has a lifelong passion for photography and is well known for his out of the box creative ideas.
Trevor Shannon is a student at MIT. He says "I am a builder, maker, and project-doer, who enjoys voiding warranties, amending faulty design, and taking pictures. I’ve had experience with high-speed photos, high-speed videos, panoramas, high-dynamic range photos, time-lapse videos, and pinhole cameras. I’ve been making things all my life, but I started photography when I was about 11. I started ‘extreme photography’ a couple of years ago."
All photos on this page were taken by Trevor.
Here is a link to Trevor's website where you can see some of his projects:
Check out his time-lapse video here: