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.

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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.