NY Times "A Moment in May"

[drew.saunders]

Just saw this on the NYT web site:

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/20/readers-9/

They want photos from around the world all taken exactly at 15:00 UTC on 2 May. You've got 5 days to get them the file, so this would be a challenge for LF shooters, but not insurmountable. That's 8AM on a Sunday for California, so this appears to be more appropriate for more eastern time zones.

I didn't see any link to their copyright policy, hopefully it's not too onerous.

[Eric James]

Sounds like fun. For me, that will fall at 23 minutes after sunrise with a large moon on the opposite horizon.

[MIke Sherck]

Sounds like fun! I'm thinking 4x5 pinhole...

Mike

[domaz]

They will probably reject our photos because we don't have EXIF information with the date and time the photo was taken.

[BarryS]

They will probably reject our photos because we don't have EXIF information with the date and time the photo was taken.

I know the secret formula for EXIF collodion. :)

[Paul Kierstead]

They will probably reject our photos because we don't have EXIF information with the date and time the photo was taken.

Just use EXIFtools to modify the date/time in the scans. I do this to make it reflect the shot time rather then the scan time. You can also add shutter speed and aperture, lens length, etc if you really want.

[drew.saunders]

Did anyone do this? I had work on Saturday at 5am, so I was disinclined to be up and shooting on Sunday at 8.

[aduncanson]

The religious institution to which I belong (but rarely attend) was having a picnic for the final day of Sunday school to commence at exactly the appointed hour. Since they are also threatening to dramatically rebuild on the same location, I have also been thinking that I should photograph the existing building before the demolition & construction begins. I showed up more than half an hour early, scouted out the location and planned my shot for 15:00 UTC. Ten minutes before the hour I set up the camera, focused and confirmed my metering. Unfortunately nobody else showed up, but I took the shot anyway. It turned out that I had missed the detail that the picnic was at an out-of-town park. Without the people trooping in it is not much of a shot so I am unlikely to go through the submission process, (not owning a scanner) but I did hang around and make a total of 4 exposures and had a great time; until a mist began to drift down and I decided to call it quits and returned to my purely functional daily existence.

I have been meaning to do something like that every Sunday.