Sensor noise art
Date: Message-Id: https://www.5snb.club/posts/2023/sensor-noise-art/
Tags: #art(8)
I was playing around with Open Camera with a very long exposure (10 seconds), with a somewhat high ISO (3000ish), with my camera placed against a flat object so it doesn’t see any outside light. This is a great way of capturing sensor noise, though it does seem to be brighter around the outside, and less in the middle. Light leakage? Or just how the sensor works?
Anyways, I did that, and then played around with every nearly filter the stock photos app on my phone had, which results in some neat wallpapers.
As in some pictures i took today, all images in this post are licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. But honestly, go make some yourself.
Also, click on the images to get full resolution copies. The sources are jpegs, so I’m not going to choose violence today and mandate a good but hardly supported format to view the full resolution copies.
Future work might be making multiple sets of images, tinting them differently, then blending between them to make a pattern. Trans flag in noise, maybe? I don’t really have a functioning computer at the moment, it just Fucking Dies when I do anything vaguely intensive, so I can’t do that at the moment.
purple_cave
This is the first one I made. It made heavy use of the “magic eraser” tool to give the blocks some structure.
green_void
The other one I made. It uses no magic eraser tool. You can really see the bright spots in the void if you don’t get the computer to blur it all together with the eraser. Though I did use sharpen to give it some texture. I use this one as a lock screen wallpaper, with the clock centered inside the circle. It works well :3
