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Artist’s tool of choice…a PD-150 in still-shot mode

Published by admin July 21st, 2005 in News

UPDATE: the original link went down, I’ve found an alternate copy and it’s fixed now. This story has also been reposted at FresHDV here.

Israeli news site Haaretz.com is running a story on graphic artist Yuval Yairi, who uses a PD-150 in still-shot mode to create incredible photo collages.

14 Responses to “Artist’s tool of choice…a PD-150 in still-shot mode”

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1 Jen Jul 23rd, 2005 at 7:41 pm

Okay bud, I see that I am your first commenter, but I won’t expound on that so as not to make you feel badly. I see I am going to have to broaden my horizons in order to read your blog on a regular basis. Unless that is, you include a couple of fabulously interesting ones every once in a while just to keep me coming back!
2 freshdv Jul 24th, 2005 at 9:08 am

Thanks for your careful attention to my fragile feelings. You’re a doll…
I’ll try to make things more “fabulously interesting” in the future.
:-)
3 Anonymous Aug 9th, 2005 at 12:31 am

thanks for the yuval yairi link
great artist and photographer!
4 Anonymous Sep 11th, 2005 at 7:04 am

who would think of shooting a whole photographic project in the still-mode of a PD150?
I visited the yuval yairi site and now i understand, amazing works!
5 Anonymous Sep 18th, 2005 at 12:33 am

An article from About.com

From Peter Marshall,
Your Guide to Photography.
June 29, 2005
Forevermore: The Hansen Project
In the 1860s, Mrs. Von Keffenbrink-Ascherade, a German
Moravian (Protestant) woman, was so moved by seeing the leper
colony in Jerusalem that she set up a committee, bought land and
built the JESUSHILFE, a leper hospital. Twenty years later in 1887
an enlarged building was added by architect Conrad Schick (1822-
1901) a German missionary who planned and built many of the city
developments of the time. The hospital continued to be staffed by
German nursing sisters, even when Britain took over responsibility
for Palestine after the First World War. During the 1948 Jewish-
Arab war, the hospital became part of Israel, and its running was
taken over by the Israeli government.
In 1873, Dr Gerhard Armauer Hansen in Norway discovered the
cause of leprosy was a bacterium, and more recently the disease
has been known as Hansen’s disease and the hospital is the
Hansen Hospital for Skin Disease. The Hansen Hospital is still
apparently used as a clinic for some treatments of the disease, but
is no longer residential but its rooms are largely empty, in many
places left exactly as when they were last occupied. As well as the
fine buildings, it also has 2 acres of notable gardens, also created
in 1887 and taking their inspiration from the bible.
Shmuel Yosef Agnon (b 1988, Ukraine, d 1970), the first Israeli
writer to receive the the Nobel Prize for Literature (shared with
Jewish poet Nelly Sachs) in 1966, used the hospital as the setting
for his novel ‘Shira’ (published after his death 1971, but set in the
1930s-40s) and the short story ‘Forevermore’, published in 1954.
Photographer Yuval Yairi’s ‘Forevermore: The Hansen Project’,
currently on show at the Andrea Meislin Gallery in New York (until
July 29, 2005) and also opening July 15, 2005 at the Tel Aviv
Museum, Israel is an exploration of the very special spaces of the
Hansen Hospital. Rather than use an individual image, Yairi works
with a digital video camera on a tripod, taking hundreds or
thousands of single frames from a single position, each showing a
very small area of the scene. These small fragments of space and
time - often including changed aspects of the scenre, for example
where a figure has moved - are then combined and layered to
produce a single colour image.
It is an effective method which gives a unique feeling to the
images, a kind of emptiness or absence, combining an accurate
representation with a dreamlike quality. You can see reproductions
of nine of the images at the Andrea Meislin Gallery site, and
around 35 at Yuval Yairi’s own web site.
6 dan Sep 26th, 2005 at 12:57 am

I want to thank “anonymous” for the text about the yairi project.
I also read the article in “Haaret’z” magazine, i find the subject very interesting, also the technique which yuval yairi uses,
anyone knows where one can find further info about the guy?
7 Anonymous Oct 19th, 2005 at 4:28 am

thank you for the yuval yairi link
very impressive!
8 Anonymous Feb 10th, 2006 at 12:43 am

Great work
9 Dana Mar 12th, 2007 at 8:27 pm

Hello, thank you for the post. I really enjoyed the pics. Question: There are two ways to take still pics on the pd150. One is to use the “camera” mode which has a very small file size and submits the image to a memory card. The other is to use the progressive scan while the camera is switched onto DV taping mode. The pic then goes onto the mini dv cassette. I am wondering if you know which one this artist used to make his pics. The pics onto the memory card are really only good for posting to the web, or can be made to look good in some high quality printers. You can, however get a beautiful image from that mode.

Also, it looks like Mr.Yairi used a fisheye lens for some of his work. If you have any info on that I would be delighted to learn from you.

Thank you.
DCD
10 Matthew Jeppsen Mar 15th, 2007 at 9:14 am

I wish I had more information on how the images are captured, but I simply don’t. If you can somehow get in touch with the artist, I’d love to hear what you learn.

Thanks

-MJ
11 joseph kinder Apr 21st, 2007 at 6:49 am

you can find the artist on his site.www.yuvalyairi.com
12 egadfly Apr 30th, 2007 at 4:17 pm

My question is simple:

Is it worth buying a new camcorder with “still shot” functionality?

As a beginner, I have been snatching still shots from old videos using various kinds of free software.

http://www.dvrplayground.com/article/14906/Frame-Capture-Using-VideoReDo/;jsessionid=0BF3237A1695401090434D2317BFE49C

following instructions, it was really no problem.
But is the quality of the still shot improved it they come from a camcorder with that still shot functionality?

Or is it really no improvement over grabbing from old graduation videos and family picnics?
13 Matthew Jeppsen Apr 30th, 2007 at 6:17 pm

The Megapixel rating for a video camera will have a direct impact on the still shot performance. Your family video frame grabs are probably a SD source, so you are limited. The latest HD/HDV camcorders should perform better, just bear in mind that they aren’t designed as still cameras.

-MJ