With this series I want to explore the relationship between time and place. Attempting investigative photography I will try to show and explore how people interact with certain places over time. I will shoot places that invoke basic human interaction such and transitory spaces and objects that people readily and subconsciously interact with. By using a time lapse set up over an hour I should be able to obtain a decent variety of images, this will hopefully show some consistent paths that people interact with. Also by using slow shutter speeds I will be able to exaggerate these paths by giving peoples appearance a phantom like glow.
I feel I have been largely unsuccessful with achieving the desired aesthetic I set myself at the beginning of this project, however, I believe the bi-product of this failure has been some very interesting images. The fist problem I ran into was the over exposure of my first set of images when I was shooting slow shutter speeds during the day. By using a pinhole lens I though I could reduce the aperture enough to allow for the slow shutter speeds I was using. My second shoot using the pinhole lens gave a correct amount of exposure but nothing was in focus. I then decided to do a shoot at night. This allowed me to use slow shutter speeds without over exposing the images. I set up time lapses in 5 different spots for and hour each. The problem I ran into then was the lack of people walking into frame due to the time I was shooting. The lack of people was an un accounted for, but unavoidable circumstance for my shoot, and through this I was unable to obtain my desired aesthetic of a frame full of ghostly figures. Although with the pictures of people I did take I was able to layer them on top of each other in Photoshop and create four subtle but haunting images of an hour frozen into one frame. I then chose to greyscale all the images. This was purely a replication of my precedence’s chronophotogray work, part of the aesthetic I was trying to replicate.
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