longexposure.md

#Long Exposure and Light Painting

Long exposure is an ideal technique for visualizing trajectories, gestures and other movements. Technically, we can accomplish long exposures through techniques such as:

• An actual long exposure, i.e. controlling shutter timing on a DSLR
• Custom software and other scripts which blend adjacent frames
• iPhone apps, etc.

Many terrific examples of long-exposure photography can be found in Nicholas Felton's new book, PhotoViz, and are discussed in this terrific lecture at Webstock '15. Felton speaks about how "the intersection of photography and data visualization is a place where optical techniques reveal complex phenomena and data viz starts to resemble a photographic process."

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For viewing and consideration: Nature

• David Rokeby, Plot Against Time (Pedestrians, Fireflies, Birds, etc.)

• Long Exposure Photographs of Gold Fireflies in Japan

• Vincent Brady, Fireflies (Backyard Bioluminescence)

• Dennis Hlynsky, Starlings in Flight
• Dennis Hlynsky: Ground Cloud, Long Exposure Photographs of Birds

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Machines and Signals

• Terence Chang, long exposure photos of airplane takeoffs

• Berg+Dentsu, Making Future Magic (iPad Light Painting, 2010)

• Berg: Immaterials: the ghost in the field

• Berg: Immaterials: Light painting WiFi

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The Body

• Pedestrians in Plot Against Time by David Rokeby:

• Croix Gagnon and Frank Schott, 12:31. (iPad Light Painting, 2011)

• Shinichi Maruyama, Nudes

• Olivier Gondry (dir.) for Tiga, You Gonna Want Me: long exposure bullet time.