AndyH Loc: Massachusetts and New Hampshire

Photographer Mark Yankus creates a surreal, deserted city, using mostly panoramic views of landmark buildings. I suspect his method involves long exposures and ND filters, but also digital removal of some of the people. The views are unique - like something out of a post apocalyptic nightmare. The images, published in Architectural Digest, are stunning.

https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/eerie-photos-of-an-empty-unseen-new-york?utm_source=nl&utm_brand=ad&utm_mailing=ARD_Daily_PM_103019&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_medium=email&bxid=5be9c6d524c17c6adf38b4d1&cndid=45144890&esrc=AUTO_OTHER&utm_term=ARD_Daily

Andy

srt101fan

Interesting. Made me think of the movie "The World, The Flesh and The Devil" set in New York. The city is empty of people except for a few survivors.

AndyH Loc: Massachusetts and New Hampshire

Yes, that's exactly the film I was thinking of! His images are striking, I think.

Andy

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

Actually there is stacking method to do this. Clamp the camera down so it can't move. Well you can try hand holding but be prepared to crop a lot off the finished stack unless you are a human clamp. Then keep taking pictures with people and vehicles in motion. Then go through each and erase the people, cars, etc you don't want. Then stack them into one image. If you have a blank spot then do a shot with no one in that place and add it to the stack. The tutorial I read in a magazine years ago was on an observation deck of a building and the guy only needed 3 or 4 frames to not have any people in the final image.

NJFrank Loc: New Jersey

I saw this process on YouTube. Heck if I can remember who the presenter was.

Darkroom317 Loc: Mishawaka, IN

Interesting, it reminds me a bit of Tokyo Nobody by Masataka Nakano. He used large format film for this work.

http://www.artunlimited.co.jp/en/artists/masataka-nakano.html

https://topmuseum.jp/e/contents/exhibition/index-3613.html