This past week I started on a new project of time lapsed night scenes. For now they are all taken in Bushwick, but I fully intend to do this wherever I go, now that I know what I’m looking at. I don’t have a light meter because they cost a fortune and do what brains can do, so I did a lot of bracketing. Each scene was shot at 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 minutes, and every image came out, which was the most exciting thing that’s happened to me all week.
Going forward, I’m going to shoot at a lower iso to reduce some of the graininess and bracket at 1, 3, 5, and 7 minutes. The images below are two I picked out and did quick scans of. I am seriously looking forward to actually making darkroom prints of these. And I’m contemplating doing a few in color just to see if I like the color of the street lights.
George Street between Central and Wilson, 8 minutes
Jefferson Street between Irving and Wyckoff, 6 minutes
Both images were shot on Fuji Neopan 400 film at f22 between 10pm and 12am.
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