John nash ott biography
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“You know, in baseball you think that all science is eliminated: Newton’s laws don’t apply, everything else is separate.”
Syd Thrift, vice president of baseball operations for the Baltimore Orioles, waxes wry from a hotel room in Kansas City, where his team is in the midst of a three-game series with the Royals. Back in 1971, as director of the short-lived (1970-’74) Royals Baseball Academy–an innovative year-round facility in Sarasota that recruited and trained prospective players for Kansas City’s major league franchise–Thrift quietly attempted to pierce the game’s hidebound nature.
“I was interested in finding new and better ways to do things,” he explains. One such effort involved studies of what he terms “the aerodynamics of a baseball in flight,” for which the academy hired John Nash Ott. “He wasn’t a baseball person,” recalls Thrift. “He just happened to live in Saraso
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John Ott
American photographer (1909–2000)
John Nash Ott (23 October 1909 – 6 April 2000[1]) was a photo-researcher, writer, photographer, and cinematographer who was an early adopter of many modern photographic practices, including time-lapse photography and full-spectrum lighting.[citation needed]
Photography
[edit]Ott's early career was in finance. He never went to college,[2] although he enrolled in finance courses at Harvard Business School while working for several Chicago area banks. During this period, he developed an interest in time-lapse photography. He made his first time-lapse film in 1927, while he was still in high school,[3] but did not develop the automated mechanical camera rig he used in his later films until 1937. His early amateur films led him to a career in cinematography. In addition to making films, he performed research about the effects of natural lighting on plants, animals, and humans.
Initially, Ott'
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Biography
Dr. John Nash Ott (October 23, 1909 – April 12, 2000) was a photographer and cinematographer who developed many modern photographic practices, including time-lapse photography and full-spectrum lighting.
Initially, Ott's interest in time-lapse movie photography, mostly of plants, was just a hobby. Starting in the 1930s, Ott bought and built more and more time-lapse equipment, eventually building a large greenhouse full of plants, cameras, and even self-built automated electric moving camera systems (the first movie camera motion control systems ever built) for moving the cameras to follow the growth of plants as they developed. He even time-lapsed his entire greenhouse of plants and cameras as they all worked, a virtual symphony of time-lapse movement. His work was featured on an episode of the second incarnation of the request TV show, You Asked For It, in the late 1950s.
Dr. John Nash Ott (October 23, 1909 – April 12, 2000) was a photographer and cinematographer w