#movements #depthoffield

I like the double exposure. 

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#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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fast shutter speed

#Contactsheets

I set my camera up on a tripod with a wide angle lens. There is vignetting around the edge of the shot as the camera that I used has a full frame sensor and the lens is not compatible with this. I could have cropped this to give me the same size image that I would have got from a cropped sensor camera, however I like the way it looks. It reminds me of an eye, being circular and this fits with the idea of us seeing more than just a single image that a photographs captures.

#Wow

I good place to experiment with the light trails idea was the fun fair. The lights on the rides are set on fixed paths which creates some really interesting shapes. I was aiming to make it clear that these were rides but use the trails to show the movement of the ride.

His works is beautiful.

This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features Ori Gersht, an Israeli-born artist who has spent the last fifteen years exploring the territory in which violence and beauty overlap, often with a special focus on how a landscape can bear witness. The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston has just opened a mid-career survey of his work titled, “Ori Gersht: History Repeating.” On view through Jan. 6, the show was curated by Al Miner.

In the second segment, I’ll inaugurate what will be become a regular feature on the program over the next year or so: Jackson Pollock’s landmark 1943 Mural is in the collection of the University of Iowa Museum of Art, but for the rest of this year and next it will be at the Getty for conservation treatment. “Mural” is one of the most important paintings of the 20th century. As long as Mural is at the Getty, I’ll be checking in with the conservators working on it to hear about what they’re doing with it and what they’re learning about it. My first guest in that series will be Yvonne Szafran, the conservator of paintings at the J. Paul Getty Museum. 

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Image: Ori Gersht, Big Bang (video still), 2006.

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Harold Edgerton  (1964) Bullet through Banana,   dye transfer print 14 x 18 inches   

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Harold Edgerton  (1964) .30 Bullet Piercing Apple,   dye transfer print 14 x 18 inches  

Harold Edgerton  

(1938) Tennis Player   

Amazing!!!

Surreal Photography by Charlie Davoli

In the 19th century

•New technologies produce sense of time-space compression (instant communication via the telegraph, for example) 

•New ways of measuring time and experiencing vision as a result of railway travel 

•Beginnings of globalisation 

•Invention of photography and then cinema opens up new ways of “slicing” time. 

•'discussion of photography is dominated by the concept of time. Photographs appear as devices for stopping time and preserving fragments of the past, like flies in amber’ -Peter Wollen (in “Fire and Ice”)