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The SIXTEEN9 series came about as with a combination of work time procrastination and drunken discussion fueled inspiration.

I've gotten into quite a few discussions with photographers and motion graphics people about post-process in digital photography. We get into the "is this really photography" discussion, which I've gotten into so many times nowa days I can hardly give a flying fuck what people think what is and what isn't. It's an image, like it, hate it, get over it.

But it got me thinking, I do a lot of image enhancement work with film and video footage for work that I really like, but have not yet considered applying in the photography realm. Maybe it's time to give it a go.

I apply different techniques and tools I use in each realm to get the look I want. I tend to be more aggressive and much more heavy handed with enhancement in my motion work ( a lot of filters, more masking and a healthy dose of computer generated enhancements.) Where as for my photography work I tend to only stick to things I can do under adjustments, keep it a little more pure. (Heh, all things can not exists without at least a hint of irony.)
I decided to see what would be the results if I apply to my photos the level of work I do to video, what if I treated my photos as footage? Better yet, what if I work on my photos in my video apps.

So here's the premises of the SIXTEEN9 series.
Shoot and treat 9 shots to look like they were screen captures from a single movie.
Make all adjustments and enhancements in my video app of choice, Adobe Aftereffects (the RAW images were processed via C1 SE.)
Work in the 16x9 HDTV format (resolution of 1920x1080, 1080i/1080p if you are a real dork)
Crop, cut, slam, treat, filter, bitchslap the image to my hearts content.

Here's a screen cap of my Aftereffects comp.