Archive for October, 2007

If cameras can warp ‘reality’


…isn’t it obvious we can do the same? At least some if not all of the time? And this can be a bad or a good thing. Allow me to explain…

The photo above was a simple experiment in long exposure with a moving hand. It’s the moon over Loch Ness, which, on the night the picture was taken, was incredibly bright. I love the way the light has been drawn out into ropes that swirl and dance in the sky. I’ve no idea why a splash of orange is evident, unless it too is a transformation of the moon on the camera’s memory card formed as my hand slowly moved around with the shutter depressed.

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Tuesday, October 30th, 2007

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