| This is a project I started during a summer photography class at Maryland Institute, College of Art. For these photographs, the camera's shutter was open for a relatively long period of time (a typical photo might have a shutter speed of 1/125 of a second), these exposures ranged from 10 seconds to 10 minutes, all on a tripod, to render part of the image sharp. A variety of techniques were used for the individual images; for the ones taken in midday sun, I used 3 stacked neutral density filters, which basically block a percentage of the light coming through. With the 3 filters stacked (which is pure black to the eye), the light was reduced by 512x (8 cubed). For the driving shot, a meticulously placed tripod sat on the back seat, and fell over about five times while I was driving. Luckily the camera survived. |