Inspiration
Experimental Photography: Amazing Underwater Images Using a Desktop Scanner
Talk about thinking outside of the box.
Nathaniel Stern is an artist based out of Wisconsin and for the past decade, he has been strapping desktop scanner imaging rigs and battery packs to his body and experimenting with creating images with these devices. In his series, Rippling Images, Stern and his team took the devices underwater, off the coast of Key Largo in Florida.
[REWIND: AN EPIC UNDERWATER PHOTO SHOOT -TIPS FOR SUCCESS WITH BENJAMIN VON WONG]
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After months spent getting the proper diving certifications and designing 10 different systems, building 5 devices and finally taking 3 of them with him underwater, the results didn’t quite turn out the way he anticipated.
Everything leaked, everything broke, nothing did what I wanted or expected: and this is precisely what must have happened to finally see the 18 wondrous prints.
The boxes captured some interesting images – nothing Stern had imagined nor intended, but “that,” he says, “is precisely the nature of experimental work.” Nevertheless, Stern finds these images not only interesting, but beautiful and thought provoking. And they certainly are.
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He released this 3 minute video explaining the series and the process:
Make sure you check out Nathaniel Stern’s website to see the rest of the images and more of his interesting experimental work.
hahahaa great idea!! ;)
awesome thinking!
There is indeed a very fine line between “flexible” and, well, “floppy” when it comes to thinking, and sometimes you just don’t know which side of the line you’re on until you try the idea out. But being able to say “this didn’t do what I wanted, but it did *something* that might be interesting of its own accord” is a strength unto itself. Cool.