“A snapshot steals life that it cannot return. A long exposure creates a form that never existed.” Dieter Appelt Long Exposure Photography...a discussion led by Mark Myers "a passing of time" First...a definition of long exposure Long-exposure photographyinvolves using a long-duration shutter speed to sharply capture the stationary elements of images while blurring, smearing, or obscuring the moving elements. Long-exposure photography captures one element that conventional photography does not: an extended period of time. The paths of bright moving objects become clearly visible. Clouds form broad bands, head and tail lights of cars draw bright streaks, stars leave trails in the sky, and water waves appear smoothened. Only bright objects will leave visible trails, whereas dark objects usually disappear. Boats in long exposures will disappear during daytime, but will draw bright trails from their lights at night. Whereas there is no fixed definition of what constitutes "long", the intent is to create a photo that Whereas there is no fixed definition of what constitutes "long", the intent is to create a photo that somehow shows the effect of passing time, be it smoother waters or light trails. A 30-minute photo of a static object and surrounding cannot be distinguished from a short exposure, hence, the inclusion of motion is the main factor to add intrigue to long exposure photos. When a scene includes both stationary and moving subjects (for example, a fixed street and moving cars or a camera within a car showing a fixed dashboard and moving scenery), a slow shutter speed can cause interesting effects, such as light trails. Mark Myers shared his recent interest and adventures with long exposure photography. Long-exposure photography captures one element that conventional photography does not: an extended period of time. The intent is to create a photo that somehow shows the effect of passing time, be it smoother waters, blurred clouds or light trails. Technical requirements and solutions were briefly reviewed. Mark shared pearls learned from Julia Anna Gospodarou’s 2018 San Francisco (en)Visionography workshop and some images he created from that trip. Ongoing projects for Mark include processing the images from San Francisco, some pin hole photography and exploration of Zone Plate photography. For those from this morning who are interested in exploring Zone Plate photography in more detail…. http://www.instructables.com/id/PHOTOGRAPHY%3A-Creating-Perfect-Pinholes-and-Zonepla/ https://skinkpinhole.com/wp/ http://www.zeroimage.com/ Finally, Mark showed a brief PBS video on Christopher Burkett Oregon photographer Christopher Burkett is best known for producing large-format film prints of American landscapes, some of the highest resolution color photographs ever created without computer technology. But he only has a limited supply of the materials, which have been discontinued, making his current work a race against the clock ( from PBS website) worth the search on PBS
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Everard Williams, Sr.
4/22/2018 01:05:27 pm
Fantastic session!
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