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I pointed my camera to the clouds and snapped pictures at an interval of one frame a second.
I sent the shot through Amnon Owed’s awesome slit-scan processing script twice. Once running on the X-axis and the other on the Y. Due to the large number of frames being input (4741 frames, to be exact) the images from the X-axis slit-scan were really wide at a resolution of 4741X1080. The images from the Y slit-scan were extremely tall at 1920X4741.
I didn’t really like the way the clouds looked all squashed up so I decided to scale them up to 3 times their actual size in one dimension. Basically, I took the X-axis slit-scan and scaled it on the X-axis to 300%. I did the same thing to the Y-axis of the Y slit-scan. I would normally never want to scale any image up by 300% but because I was only scaling up one dimension I was still retaining some sharpness from the other dimension. There is some nasty artifacting here and there due to the enlarging but it also revealed all this amazingly beautiful detail and movement at the edges of the clouds.
It was great fun exploring around within these two giant panoramic movie files and finding the pretty moments to focus on. With the two factors of each shot lasting for about 45 seconds and the other being that the scale in one dimension is so enlarged, there was an incredible amount of variety I could find at any particular time or position within a single shot.
