Michael Wesely
Michael Wesely
The recent work of photographer Michael Wesely (Munich, 1963) proposes an interesting way for travelling across the liquid nature of time in photography. In his hands, the time contained in a single picture is dilated to the extent of becoming a matter of days, months and even years.
Over the last two decades, Michael Wesely has been developing a long exposure technique, whose details are still kept in secret, that allowed him to make images up to 3 years of exposure time - Wesely claims indeed that he could do exposures almost indefinitely, up to 40 years -. Presumably he´s using a large format camera of 4x5, extended for allowing the use of a pinhole-like lens which might be suited with ND filters for reducing dramatically the final amount of light exposed to the negative. However, the real gear remains elusive and we can only speak certainly about its results. What follows below is a set of photographs that document the re-construction of the
Museum of Modern Art of New York
, from its demolition in 2001 until its complete re-building in 2004. Wesely used 8 cameras positioned in four different corners around the construction site, and he left the shutter open for up to 34 months.
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The way Edward Muybridge photographed.
#Creating photographs with lights.
After getting the settings right I got some images that I am very happy with. To get the subjects in the right place I opened the shutter on about a 10 exposure then moved over to fire the flash manually when the subject was in the correct position.
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Eadweard Muybridge
Étienne Jules Marey, Chronophotograph of a Man Clearing a Hurdle, c.1892.
Étienne Jules Marey, Chronophotograph of a Man Clearing a Hurdle, c.1892.
I have planned to take some photographs in a busy public place and I decided visitto Kingston station. I wanted also to experiment with different lights, exposures and timing.
*I used long exposure/timings
* Use a small aperture, for example f22
* Experiment with multiple separate exposures
* In some of the photos i change the ISO
.*I used available lights instead of flashes
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Light trail photography
A technique sometimes used for showing movement in photography is light trails. This is where the shutter is left open for a relatively long period of time and a light is moved around within the frame of the photograph. Where the light has been a trail is left, this is sometimes called light painting. It is a technique that I have used before and have utilised in other projects. It is this that have given me the interest to explore it further and combine it with this project for showing movement.
My experiments.
For our purposes an image like this there are lot’s of visible moving elements, the students walking by and lot of additional detail. I experimented with using different exposure and timimg.
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