time exposures to get motion in a still picture: Sometimes the super sharp capture of a moving action at a point in time doesn't have the sense of motion that a time exposure does.

vertigo

Sometimes the super sharp capture of a moving action at a point in time doesn't have the sense of motion that a time exposure does. Found these that I like. Interestingly, not all models that tried could get the rhythm of the stop and go movement necessary for this to work.

Ekeeton

Interesting

JohnFrim Loc: Somewhere in the Great White North.

Although you, the creator of the shots, did not call these art, I think they are.

JohnSwanda Loc: San Francisco

This is a fascinating technique, especially since the models must move in a way that makes it work. We are all familiar with previsualization ala Ansel Adams, but this kind of technique requires postvisualization - that is, you have to try a lot of shots and then go through them afterwards to pick the ones that worked.

toxdoc42

JohnSwanda wrote:

This is a fascinating technique, especially since the models must move in a way that makes it work. We are all familiar with previsualization ala Ansel Adams, but this kind of technique requires postvisualization - that is, you have to try a lot of shots and then go through them afterwards to pick the ones that worked.

gorgeous. I fooled with that approach in the 1980s, I found that holding the rewind button on my Nikon F2, I could cock the shutter and not advance the film. tried again recently when I found that my Z50 can internally create a multiple exposure image. The really cool thing with the Z50 is that once you select the option to shoot multiple images, you see a ghost of the previous image in the viewfinder, so you can check for the position of the object being photographed. I had no model, so experimented with a dog in one case, my grand daughter and with my own body in another. It was awkward doing my nude since I also had to use a self timer. I won't post my body here since my body shot is of me nude, and I didn't want to upset anyone.

I am editing this, I found my experiments from film days.

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Stardust Loc: Central Illinois

Haven't tried digitally but like the 3rd shot, kind of what I experimented with in the 70's with film. Would stop down, use long exposure, multi weak flashes, stop action on last shot of exposure.

toxdoc42

I tried unsuccessfully before I got the Z50. It is a breeze with that camera. The camera even allows you to choose from several photos and then choose which should be brighter than others or make them equal! Cool apps in the camera.

Timmers Loc: San Antonio Texas.

I do believe you were 'channeling' Martha Graham! Nah, it must have been Merce Cunningham. Ya know Vert, you are getting under my skin you ol' dog! LOL!!! Great work man.

dpullum Loc: Tampa Florida

These are quite interesting indeed. What technique did you use for these multi-image overlays..? In-camera of layers in post?

Mult images can be achieved with a gadget such as an Intervalometer which runs at about $22. Or a fancy one for $100+ that does the same thing.

Timmers Loc: San Antonio Texas.

dpullum wrote:

These are quite interesting indeed. What technique did you use for these multi-image overlays..? In-camera of layers in post?

Mult images can be achieved with a gadget such as an Intervalometer which runs at about $22. Or a fancy one for $100+ that does the same thing.

Put the camera on a solid stand (tripod). Open the shutter. Using a flash, expose the scene by popping the open flash button multiple times. Close the shutter. Chimp the image with the model so that they get a sense of what has occurred and can do it again with an informed sense of what the results will be.

(Spoiler alert, in the days of analog photography we used Polaroid Type 665 or PN 55 to get a viewable print (positive) that created a useful negative that could be cleared in a tray of post processing juice.)

What is not shown here, that which can not be seen, but is part of the experience for the photographer (and not the model) is a thing called 'the persistence of vision' that registers in the brain as the successive exposures are made. One can say that this will guide the photographer in making the images, this is a typical limited mechanical type of thinking and is completely having nothing to do with the sensations that are important to the making of the image. One must experience the effect, realize it is a separate part of the event and is strongly outside the photographic image.

This separate and completely different part of making art is one of the primary elements in what an artist experiences in making art. For modern art this experiencing, the grasp of a meaning often lost to the lay public is where the heart of the experience of modern art lies. The gesture, the doing, but always the grasp of what is perceived and then acted upon. This is the handshake between the modern artist. It is what drives the individual on. It is stuff of modern art. A naked dancing model or a banana taped to a gallery wall, it is all the same.

One last thing, KISS, "Keep It Simple, Stupid" Is always the key to a successful out come. After all a banana is easier to duck tape to a wall than a slab of bacon (I'm joking here, every modern artist knew about that Warhol guy and the banana on the jacket of the Velvet Underground's first album!).

toxdoc42

dpullum wrote:

These are quite interesting indeed. What technique did you use for these multi-image overlays..? In-camera of layers in post?

Mult images can be achieved with a gadget such as an Intervalometer which runs at about $22. Or a fancy one for $100+ that does the same thing.

in my images, it was all part of the new Z50, an option to shoot multiple images and have the camera merge them. the outcome is a jpg file though, even if you shoot raw.

vertigo

I tried (with the model's consent) To do this with a strob light that blinks consistently. Was all set to try different intervals between blinks (adjustable on unit with a timing dial. Model was going to do a cartwheel across the backdrop. First one--she got discombobulated and mid cartwheel crashed. Thankfully no big injuries. Tried it again, adjusted the rate of flash based on the first one, and she tried it with her eyes closed which worked much better. All above was done long ago and I can't find the record of the shoot.

I like the examples shown above. Camera now has a built in intervalometer, allows multi exposure on one frame, Photoshop allow combining images on layers, etc. I believe, but haven't found the right menu yet, it also washes the dishes afterward. But the beauty of it is time exposure. Just push and hold down the button and take your finger off when she gets to the other edge of the frame. Shows not only the images of each pose but the movement between.

toxdoc42

Remember the famous, nude climbing the stairs?

Timmers Loc: San Antonio Texas.

Duchamp's Nude Descending the Staircase no.2 Of course that is a translation from the French. Shown in the famous Armory Show, New Your City.

Rab-Eye Loc: Indiana

Definitely intriguing.