Slow shutter
Sep 14, 2021 08:30:19 #
When I first got into photography back in the late 1940s, Doc Edgerton’s strobe light intrigued me. Now, 70 years later, I have begun to play around with slow shutter. My interpretation of “slow” is beyond the capability of stabilization to help, but to avoid tripods and long exposures.
Several years ago I made a “chain pod,” thinking I had a patent in my future. Then I checked the google guy; they were, in various iterations, ubiquitous. Anyway, that’s the first photo. The shots here were steadied by using it.
The second image is one I took a couple of weeks ago, in the middle of crowded Times Square.
The next two were taken just before sunset last night. I touched up the last with a little bit of Topaz. All exposures were 1/3 second.
I thought about posting these under photography discussion, but because this is new to me, I’m looking for comments…and ideas, or even other examples.
Several years ago I made a “chain pod,” thinking I had a patent in my future. Then I checked the google guy; they were, in various iterations, ubiquitous. Anyway, that’s the first photo. The shots here were steadied by using it.
The second image is one I took a couple of weeks ago, in the middle of crowded Times Square.
The next two were taken just before sunset last night. I touched up the last with a little bit of Topaz. All exposures were 1/3 second.
I thought about posting these under photography discussion, but because this is new to me, I’m looking for comments…and ideas, or even other examples.
Sep 14, 2021 08:37:51 #
Sep 14, 2021 09:34:15 #
Sep 14, 2021 09:42:39 #
The last time I went to a behind the shopping-mall carnival, I used 1/10s slow shutter and loved the results. Yours are great, highly imaginative, yet simplistic.
#2 #3 show how transient thing is our lives are... now you see it now you don't. Parts of the image are fixed and constant with time, brick and benches etc... other parts are whisked away by a pseudo-time-machine... poof, going-going-gone.
Perhaps the sitting woman disappears the other people who are disturbing her tranquility?
To stability at the slow shutter camera, I used a tennis ball filled with plaster-of-Paris. The bolt is extending to allow me to eagle claw the ball, right hand against the camera side fingering the shutter. the bolt is extended out of the ball enough to allow your finger, index, and middle to go over between the ball and the camera. The bolt is firmed to the camera with a rubber-coated wide knurled nut as found on tripods etc. The weight inertia steadies the camera.
Remember the complaint of many UHH members... just nothing new to photograph! daldds, You have proved them wrong.
#2 #3 show how transient thing is our lives are... now you see it now you don't. Parts of the image are fixed and constant with time, brick and benches etc... other parts are whisked away by a pseudo-time-machine... poof, going-going-gone.
Perhaps the sitting woman disappears the other people who are disturbing her tranquility?
To stability at the slow shutter camera, I used a tennis ball filled with plaster-of-Paris. The bolt is extending to allow me to eagle claw the ball, right hand against the camera side fingering the shutter. the bolt is extended out of the ball enough to allow your finger, index, and middle to go over between the ball and the camera. The bolt is firmed to the camera with a rubber-coated wide knurled nut as found on tripods etc. The weight inertia steadies the camera.
Remember the complaint of many UHH members... just nothing new to photograph! daldds, You have proved them wrong.
Sep 14, 2021 10:12:50 #
“#2 #3 show how transient thing is our lives are... now you see it now you don't. Parts of the image are fixed and constant with time, brick and benches etc... other parts are whisked away by a pseudo-time-machine... poof, going-going-gone.”
Thanks. A great way to look at them.
Thanks. A great way to look at them.
Sep 14, 2021 17:24:42 #
daldds wrote:
When I first got into photography back in the late... (show quote)
Very creatively done and eye-catching
Sep 15, 2021 07:47:05 #
Very positive and interesting results regarding your photographs. I love them all.
Dennis
Dennis
Sep 15, 2021 14:05:58 #
As an 80 year old, I followed a similar path. My chain-pod became a string pod with venetian blind nylon cord and a nylon 1/4 20 license plate bolt. Lighter, quieter and scratch free. Long exposures are very interesting and you may have nudged me from thinking about them to trying a few....thanks very much!
Bob
Bob
Sep 15, 2021 14:56:15 #
TreborLow wrote:
As an 80 year old, I followed a similar path. My chain-pod became a string pod with venetian blind nylon cord and a nylon 1/4 20 license plate bolt. Lighter, quieter and scratch free. Long exposures are very interesting and you may have nudged me from thinking about them to trying a few....thanks very much!
Bob
Bob
I tried with a cord the first time I made a chain pod, but it stretched. The very light weight chain that I use cannot be stretched and allows for for upward pressure.
David
Sep 15, 2021 15:35:02 #
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