Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Silent World

In their series ‘silent world’, paris-based, franco-german artistic duo Lucie & Simon use tricks of the photographic trade to render the world’s busiest cities free of cars and even people. Neutral density filters allow photographers to limit light entry without closing the aperture or increasing the shutter speed. the higher the F-stop reduction, the greater the effect, allowing for super-long exposures which make moving objects like people and cars essentially invisible, while only immobile structures remain. extremely high level filters are used by NASA to analyze star patterns.








 

2 comments:

Debra She Who Seeks said...

That's kinda creepy. Looks post-apocalyptic or something.

M. D. Jackson said...

It's like temporal photography. All the ephemera of the urban environment is filtered out -- it has moved along the timestream. Only the buildings remain stuck in time.

But notice that in each photo there is one lone figure that has the same temporal permanence -- that seems to have become as stuck in time as the buildings.

Curioous.