Posts Tagged ‘time lapse’

The Tower & Other Night Scenes

Saturday, August 7th, 2010

As soon as I got back to Brooklyn (7:30 am after a 13 hour bus ride) I busted out the black and white and got down to processing. Two hours later – voila!

I took a few time lapse photos at night while I was in Cleveland and they really add the variety I was looking for to this project, giving it a little more depth. Plus they look really great.

Look closely in this one. At the pay phone on the right side is a woman standing. She hardly moved during the entire one minute exposure and I think she might be as sharp as the building itself. Can’t wait to print this one larger and see how she looks.

The next two were both taken in Cleveland, and the last one is the current pièce de résistance, known as “The Tower.” That photograph was taken in Bushwick off Knickerbocker Avenue.

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Night Scenes: George & Jefferson Streets

Thursday, July 15th, 2010

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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It’s July!

Thursday, July 8th, 2010

What happened to June?? It’s so hot I’m waking up early and going to bed late because it’s impossible to sleep. Air conditioning is no longer a part of my vocabulary. I can’t remember what it was like before sweat was a part of my wardrobe.

So I’m finding things to do when the sun goes down and things cool off. This is my backyard lit by the streetlight in the parking lot next to us. These are just some random test shots I took – dropping off the film tomorrow! And picking up a shutter release and a stop watch so I can do this properly next time.

The one taken outside was shot at 250 iso at about f4 with a 30 second exposure. The following one is of Tim, only for about 5 seconds. Next round involves black and white film and the empty streets of bushwick. And maybe some more from the backyard once the timing is more resolved. Hold me to it…

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Bodega Wine Bar

Monday, May 24th, 2010

Not long ago I was asked to take some photographs of recently-opened Bodega Wine Bar on Troutman and St. Nicholas in Bushwick. Woodworker extraordinaire Ted Kilcommons did a lot to design and build out the new bar and was looking for photographs to capture everything from details to the atmosphere.

Here are a few I liked from the first session of shooting. These were all taken around 5pm, with lots of natural sunlight coming through the windows. I used a lot of long exposures to capture the light as it fell across the wood, which gave me really great tones and emphasized the texture in everything.


This image is of Ben Warren, one of the owners of the Bodega, and also the bartender. His partner is Gina Leone.

Ted and I decided after looking at the first set that we needed a couple more in the evening. Something to really get the atmosphere and the whole look of the place. These are the two gems we ended up with.

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