Intense Sun Guitar Oscillations Captured by iPad & iPhone
I discovered playing guitar in direct sunlight enables an iPad/iPhone camera to capture incredibly wild external guitar oscillations on the OUTSIDE of the guitar. it is amazing how simple this is and why no one else has done it before with Apple devices, at least what I can see. This means anyone with an Apple camera (and access to the sun) can make a cool stringed instrument video! The direct sun causes the camera to film at a very fast shutter speed. The “rolling shutter” effect occurs when the camera is perpendicular to the strings. We used an iPad 2 and iPhone 4. There a lot of videos of inside the guitar, but this is OUTSIDE the guitar. You can film a cool video of the guitarist playing the guitar with oscillating strings. Why is this new? My theory why no one has posted anything like this with an Apple camera before is: 1. Guitarists do not like to perform in the sun. 2. It is unusual hold a camera vertical to film a guitarist. Plus the effect is more obvious on a super large baritone 12-string guitar when plucked with fingerpicks. Hope you enjoy the video! Watch in full-screen HD to see the oscillations! Cheers, Mike Salovich mikesalovich.com Note The guitar is an extra large baritone 12-string made by Brian Applegate. The music is my composition “Prairie Ambience.” You can download it at… itunes.apple.com Please check out my other guitar videos (more coming!) on the worldbeatguitar channel.
Nice playing and composition. Kottke/Fahey influences surely. Well done!
@worldbeatguitar its got elements of folk. complete work of art i must say.
There are literally hundreds of videos with this exact same thing going on, so please stop acting like some kind of break through amazing discoverer.
I found the album for this song, it’s called “The Return Message.”
All the other stuff aside…. Nice music.
@worldbeatguitar its also abut the music
Woah! Awesome!
i difetti vengono santificati con sta apple… assurdo
Holy crap..
@IntroTDarknes Thanks!
I did something similar with a Canon 7D on another song. The video is called “Amazing 12-String Guitar High Shutter Speed Video.”
@adfsghjn Hi. I updated the description so it is more clear that this video is about filming oscillations OUTSIDE the guitar using an iPad or iPhone. If you know of any others please let us know. I think this is cool because you can film both the guitarist and guitar and see the oscillations – and you don’t need a $4000 camera. I expect to see lots of oscillating videos of stringed instruments soon. This can also be a school lab project for physics. Peace, Mike
Sneak! Cunningly touting your awesome song inside a semi-viral vid of ‘Guitar Oscillations and Iphone/iPad buzz words. :-/
Really cool! Where can get?
You gots an album?
Keep going.!
@jw2327 Hey, thanks Check my website for more info. Peace, Mike
Really digging that rhythm.
Very nice song,
Brilliant music and playing. Cool video effect!
@adfsghjn please don’t be a d*ck; it’s not pretty. The guy is excited about discovering this, and wanted to share.
I get sooo tired of the negative vibe in YT video comments. How about some positive energy for a change?
Hi Mike, you’re not the first, but it’s a great video and some nice pickin’ to boot. There’s quite a few people doing the same thing much earlier on YouTube. Guitarist Michael Gulezian showed me your video, so you’re getting some other guitar enthusiasts to love your video nevertheless.
Thanks for posting!
@ashlandjohn Hi. Thanks for the compliment about the music. If you know of any other video that uses an iPhone/iPad capturing oscillations on the outside of the guitar before this, please let us know. Peace, Mike.
@worldbeatguitar I think my first post sounded pissy, so I apologize! Your video is really cool, as is the videography on your “Amazing 12-String Guitar High Shutter Speed Video” post. The other iphone guitar string strobing videos qualify more as experiments, most inside the sound hole, as I’m sure you know. So maybe you are the first to do the “sunlight” effect w/iPhone! Do you know how many lumens it requires to push the shutter speed high enough? Maybe an app can change shutter speed too?
@ashlandjohn Thanks for the reply. I research it and so far no one has programmatically set an iDevice camera shutter speed, so the only way to increase it is to shine a lot of light. Indoors I was able to get the effect with 2600 watts very close to the guitar. But direct sunlight through a window should work too. Peace, Mike
@ashlandjohn No problem. I read all comments as if they spontaneous comments from friends!
real fun
i like the tune and the groove also
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