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Inspiration Week of 8/22

This week for our inspirational post we’re happy to bring you something on the more experimental side. Playing with these techniques will usually give mediocre results at first, but with a bit of effort, the work will pay off. Once learned, I’d love to see how you apply these techniques to your own creative vision. Don’t forget to share your new work with us – here’s the submission guidelines!

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[singlepic id=467 w=600]No Title, ©Vanesa Henseleit 2016[/singlepic]

Vanesa Henseleit is a talented and stylistically unique photographer from Santiago, Chile and she made this photo using partially overlapping multi exposures. It’s a wonderful example of the technique! Vanesa also dedicates a decent amount of her energy to her group, Lucky Pinhole, which conducts workshops, projects, and calls for pinhole work. I highly recommend you check out more of her work on her website.[spacer height=”20px”]

Scarecrow
[singlepic id=468 w=600]Scarecrow, ©David Stenström 2016[/singlepic]

David Stenström made this haunting image with a Robert Rigby 4×5 camera loaded with Fomapan 100. The exposure was roughly 2 minutes while the camera was pointed at a friend standing in a field of peas, whom David instructed to move slightly to bring the motion feel. David has some great work on his Flickr profile that is worth looking at![spacer height=”20px”]

Nite Flights
[singlepic id=466 w=600]Nite Flights, ©Andy Martin 2016[/singlepic]

Andy Martin has a great project on display at his website called Nite Flights, combining long night time pinhole exposures and motion to get a visual embodiment of chaos. You can find the rest of these images on his website by clicking here. He also has more great work on his Flickr page.[spacer height=”20px”]

 

On Travel – Markus Kaesler

Markus Kaesler is a German photographer with a level of intent to his multi exposure work that is rarely seen. As you’ll soon see, the photos below require a care in execution that is as meticulous as it is devoted. What follows are samples from two of Markus’s projects. The first, CONTACTS, are multi exposures taken from cities connected by his travels. The second, in between, are whole travel exposures that record the experience as travel between places.

After viewing these, I implore you to take a look at Markus’s website for more of his work. Markus first reached out to us through our Call for Entry and will be included in the upcoming ƒ/D book. If you’re so inclined, I recommend that you also consider responding to our Call for Entry!

CONTACTS.

//crossing cities is a visual melting pot of cities. It links pairs of cities in different countries and unites them in a unique photographic way; one part of the pinhole images is taken in one city, the other part in its corresponding. On the same sheet of film. Every place has its very own character, determined by cultural values, religion and geographical settings. Keeping this in mind, the overlaying of cities in two different countries into a series of images that contains essential parts of both places does not only mean the physical crossing of borders. By using a technique of twisted double exposures, images are created that may be looked at from both sides. Depending on whichever side you look at, you may focus on different patterns of the image. And oversee others. The diversity of the places is shown in the same way as new ties are revealed. New forms and structures become visible, while the specific character of the places remains. The previous known adds up and leads to the unknown. The exposures float into each other. A kind of in between appears. The alphabet serves as a pattern. The cities are selected by the first letter of their names in english spelling. From that results the extent of 52 cities in 52 different countries.

Berlin//Bucharest 01
[singlepic id=426 w=600]CONTACTS Berlin//Bucharest 01 – ©Markus Kaesler 2016[/singlepic][spacer height=”20px”]

Paris//Prague 02
[singlepic id=431 w=600]CONTACTS Paris//Prague 02 – ©Markus Kaesler 2016[/singlepic][spacer height=”20px”]

Berlin//Bucharest 04
[singlepic id=427 w=600]CONTACTS Berlin//Bucharest 04 – ©Markus Kaesler 2016[/singlepic][spacer height=”20px”]

London//Lissabon 07
[singlepic id=429 w=600]CONTACTS London//Lissabon 07 – ©Markus Kaesler 2016[/singlepic][spacer height=”20px”]

London//Lissabon 08
[singlepic id=430 w=600]CONTACTS London//Lissabon 08 – ©Markus Kaesler 2016[/singlepic][spacer height=”20px”]

Berlin//Bucharest 10
[singlepic id=428 w=600]CONTACTS Berlin//Bucharest 10 – ©Markus Kaesler 2016[/singlepic][spacer height=”20px”]

 

in between

„in between“ shows the space between two places. The whole time of a journey banned on light sensitive paper. You see the resulting light traces that are painted on light sensitive paper during its journey crossing borders of countries and continents. The exposure starts in one country and ends in another. What you see is the “ in between“. Why do I care so much about the materials I use? If you consider photography as a storytelling art, you will recognize that the used material is part of the story. It makes a difference if a sheet of light sensitive paper actually has travelled thousands of miles while being exposed or if its just a piece of paper where the visual impression of a voyage is printed on. Some may say, that for the final visible impression it doesn’t matter how an image has been created. I oppose this, that the creating process is part of the resulting work. The true story may only be told by the one who experienced it.

BKK-SIN
[singlepic id=432 w=600]in between BKK-SIN – ©Markus Kaesler 2016[/singlepic][spacer height=”20px”]

FRA-BKK
[singlepic id=433 w=600]in between FRA-BKK – ©Markus Kaesler 2016[/singlepic][spacer height=”20px”]

FRA-IST
[singlepic id=434 w=600]in between FRA-IST – ©Markus Kaesler 2016[/singlepic][spacer height=”20px”]

TPE-HKG
[singlepic id=435 w=600]in between TPE-HKG – ©Markus Kaesler 2016[/singlepic][spacer height=”20px”]

Get Inspired – NovartisCampus Tanaguchi

Today we get juxtaposed in the angles of our featured pinhole photo.

NovartisCampus Tanaguchi
[singlepic id=200 w=600]NovartisCampus Tanaguchi, 8Banners, Fuji Provia, ©Rudi Neumaier 2015[/singlepic]

Rudi Neumaier is a Swiss photographer that thrives on the experimental possibilities that are presented by combining older photo techniques and digital processes. For this photo, he captured a triple exposure with his 8Banners pinhole camera and then converted to black and white in photoshop.

You can find more of Rudi’s work on his personal website, Flickr,  Fotocommunity, Fotoblur, or Black+White Magazine.

 

Technique: Multi-Lapse

A recurring component of pinhole photography is the long exposure time. Even out in bright sunlit skies we’ll often find the proper exposure to be 1 or 2 seconds. The result of course is that parts of your composition which are in motion – flags, people, trees in the wind, etc – will blur from the motion.

Seeing what the motion will do on the final photograph is part of the appeal of pinhole photography. Sometimes the results surpass our expectations. Continue reading Technique: Multi-Lapse