I'd like to repeat this shot if I can. (not exactly, but the feel of the elipitical tyres and slanting poles in the background)
I guess I'd need a large, slow moving focal plane shutter. Would a Speed Graphic be the best bet?
Does anyone know of any contemporary photographers achieving this?
cheers
Jeremy
You need a shutter which goes from the top down to the bottom!
Good luck Armin
I was about to correct you and say that the shutter has to go from the bottom to the top.... then remembered that the image on the film will be upside down!
Steve.
Did a bit of googling ... Brought me right back here!
http://www.largeformatphotography.in...ad.php?t=31903
A Speed Graphic or Graflex would be a logical choice. The much faster vertical moving shutter of a small camera like a Nikkormat would give a very few inches offset of a very fast moving car.
Shoot a cloth shuttered Leica M at a slow shutter speed in the vertical orientation with the shutter release on the lower right relative to the photographer.
Use the same style camera Lartigue used.
A Graflex SLR is recommended.
http://www.cosmonet.org/camera/grafle_e.htm
Lartigue modified his shutter to slow it down. You might be able to do the same thing with a home-made guillotine shutter.
The shutter slit might take 20ms to travel across the film gate. If the camera is orientated vertically and the image cropped to horizontal format, the slit takes about 10ms to travel across the image. In the Lartigue photo posted above, the wheel occupies about 2/5 of the vertical diminsion of the image. This means the wheel would advance about 4ms during the exposure. At 60mph this is only about 4". Speed Graphics rule!Originally Posted by clay harmon
Photograph a wheel, distort it to your liking in Photoshop. Edit > Transform or Edit > Free Transform. No need to do it in camera.
Brian Ellis
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