we are going to need a pre-review as well as a hindsight on this campaign. ill throw a TB on your calender. however i realize that Outlook is misbehaving, thusly we’ll have to have another meeting to discuss that.
I’m thinking about trying some daytime long exposure shots. I was thinking about stacking neutral density filters, or trying to find a few that are extremely dense.
The idea I have is to shoot some busy spots in the city but effectively remove the people and cars, etc, by timing them out. I would really like to do like a 20 or 30 second shot in the middle of the day. I’m think this weekend about seeking out some of these filters. Where should I go? Calumet? Gasser? I think these filters are like over $30 a piece.
Good question, one I have been debating. I could comp together multiple photographs at different time periods, but the stupid sun seems to move a lot during the day.
Maybe you could find a busy intersection on a steep enough hill where, if standing on the uphill side of the intersection, all of the parked cars are over the edge of the intersection (downhill). I haven’t lived in the city in a couple years so I can’t think of a perfect intersection off of the top off my head, but maybe around nob hill/russian hill. Actually, Union Square might also be good because, if I remember correctly, several of the streets don’t allow parking on the street right there. Plus it is always packed, so the effect of it being “empty” would be more pronounced.
Another option instead of using filters is to keep the camera as still as possible, take lots of images, put them into a stack and run a median filter over it, which can give a really sharp result. Photoshop CS3, CS4 support this feature: http://www.creativetechs.com/iq/photoshop_cs3s_automatic_people_remover.html
If you don’t choose your images carefully, though, you will end up with a lot of messy little artifacts around the edges of removed people. I’d still go with the ND-filters if you can
There is also plenty you can do without filters – see:
i’m curious. on my deats edge, actually.
Considering you have a picture of Columbus up, you have my attention.
whatcha up to?
I’m also curious to know.
Yeah, me too!
we are going to need a pre-review as well as a hindsight on this campaign. ill throw a TB on your calender. however i realize that Outlook is misbehaving, thusly we’ll have to have another meeting to discuss that.
I’m thinking about trying some daytime long exposure shots. I was thinking about stacking neutral density filters, or trying to find a few that are extremely dense.
The idea I have is to shoot some busy spots in the city but effectively remove the people and cars, etc, by timing them out. I would really like to do like a 20 or 30 second shot in the middle of the day. I’m think this weekend about seeking out some of these filters. Where should I go? Calumet? Gasser? I think these filters are like over $30 a piece.
i like this line of thinking. how will you address parked cars?
Good question, one I have been debating. I could comp together multiple photographs at different time periods, but the stupid sun seems to move a lot during the day.
Maybe you could find a busy intersection on a steep enough hill where, if standing on the uphill side of the intersection, all of the parked cars are over the edge of the intersection (downhill). I haven’t lived in the city in a couple years so I can’t think of a perfect intersection off of the top off my head, but maybe around nob hill/russian hill. Actually, Union Square might also be good because, if I remember correctly, several of the streets don’t allow parking on the street right there. Plus it is always packed, so the effect of it being “empty” would be more pronounced.
Another option instead of using filters is to keep the camera as still as possible, take lots of images, put them into a stack and run a median filter over it, which can give a really sharp result. Photoshop CS3, CS4 support this feature: http://www.creativetechs.com/iq/photoshop_cs3s_automatic_people_remover.html
If you don’t choose your images carefully, though, you will end up with a lot of messy little artifacts around the edges of removed people. I’d still go with the ND-filters if you can
There is also plenty you can do without filters – see:
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/04/predawn-images-of-an-eerily-empty-city/
http://www.flickr.com/groups/lonelycity/pool/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ianvisits/sets/72157611633177884/
I think this idea would make an excellent self-portrait. Standing in the middle of an ‘empty’ street in san francisco