Beautiful use of long exposures

[Ed Richards]

Not LF as far as I know, but a great use of long exposures which would work fine for LF:

http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2008/06/pandemonium.html

[domenico Foschi]

Ed, I was screaming Fantastic! in my room with nobody there.
These images are some of the most disquieting I have ever seen.
You know when you think..."I wish I had done that...?

[Colin Graham]

Wonderful work...here's Titarenko's home page (http://www.alexeytitarenko.com/index.html).

[Michael Alpert]

Yes, I agree. Titarenko is making wonderfully evocative photographs. His New York gallery published a nice little book of his work a few years ago. It is probably still available through ABE.com. In any case, the website gives you more than enough to think about. He seems to use a number of techniques, including (maybe) several quickly-made exposures of moderate length. so that his ghost figures seem to stop (or almost stop) several times. It looks like he is using a medium-format camera, perhaps even a Rollei, with a 75mm-80mm lens. The entire work, including the technique, seems, somehow, very Russian, straight out of Dostoevsky. I am not sure that an American or Western European could ever quite pull it off.

[Michael Gordon]

I dig Titarenko's work.

BTW, Chris Jordan had a similarly engaging color series back when before he began doing his current work. I wish he still had it available on his site, although it undoubtedly doesn't fit within his current scope.

[Daniel_Buck]

that's good stuff!

[Roman]

Not LF as far as I know, but a great use of long exposures which would work fine for LF:

http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2008/06/pandemonium.html

Looks more like multiple shots of the subject not the one long exposure.
But I may be wrong ofc.

[domenico Foschi]

Looks more like multiple shots of the subject not the one long exposure.
But I may be wrong ofc.

That's what I thought as well, but if you see his video in his website, it clearly shows it's one long exposure.
I am glad he is using an non-traditional form of paper flashing, at least it seems that way.

[harrykauf]

wow..thanks for the link!

[John Kasaian]

Wonderful! This "made" my morning---thanks! :D

[Michael Alpert]

I just viewed the ARTE documentary on the Titarenko website. Apart from his technique, which is presented very clearly, Titarenko is portrayed exquisitely as an artist. Titanenko's aesthetic stance is mature beyond his years.

[Duane Polcou]

Those are insanely eerie. One person with a camera and a time exposure and an idea created more emotion than hours of work in PS or CGI.

[Gordon Moat]

I first saw this photographer's images in Reponses Photo several years ago. At the time he was using a Hasselblad 6x6, some ND filters, and (as you can tell) very long exposures. Definitely cool stuff. Time consuming and not high volume, but with enough planning the same techniques could be used in large format.

Ciao!

Gordon Moat Photography (http://www.gordonmoat.com)

[SAShruby]

Guys, do you think you can achieve those long exposures with two polarizers?

[aduncanson]

That's what I thought as well, but if you see his video in his website, it clearly shows it's one long exposure.
I am glad he is using an non-traditional form of paper flashing, at least it seems that way.

It occurred to me that the recurring hand was simply one elderly person slowly making their way up the stairs, holding their hand at one spot on the rail, while their body slowly caught up to it, and then moving their hand forward again.

[Martin Courtenay-Blake]

A lot of John Blakemore's outdoor work used long exposures or was built up with multiple exposures, using an old MPP 5x4 and, I believe, a 240mm Symar S. Whilst his work was taken mainly in rural settings the effect is equally haunting.

Michael Kenna has also exploited this technique, similarly using a square format, to the point of perhaps making it his signature style.

The two above feature highly in my list of all time favourite photographers and I must admit I like this chap's work as well.

Martin

[Shen45]

Wonderful work. I like the fact he has used a very static object that has no movement of its self surrounded by grass etc.

This could be a very interesting thread to start with images done by people here.

[Anupam]

Unreal City,
Under the brown fog of a winter dawn,
A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many,
I had not thought death had undone so many.
Sighs, short and infrequent, were exhaled,
And each man fixed his eyes before his feet.
Flowed up the hill and down King William Street,
To where Saint Mary Woolnoth kept the hours
With a dead sound on the final stroke of nine.

[Anupam]

As someoe who occasionally attempts to use movement in handheld photography with 35mm rangefinders, I appreciate the challenges in this sort of work and this stuff is just inspiring. Thanks for posting the links - sometimes you need a kick in the pants to go back and push yourself - wonderful, wonderful work.

If I may, here (http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2231/1805553392_6e0ab40b1c_o.jpg), here (http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2215/1820919470_cbce73199b_o.jpg) and here (http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2390/1804708229_c487836854_o.jpg) are some of my feeble attempts at playing with motion, but nothing on the epic scale of these shots.

[butterflydream]

Nice!

It also reminds me "Tokyo Nobody" by Masataka Nakano.
http://www.artunlimited.co.jp/nakano/index.html