Weekly Blog Post: Long Exposure Photography

I was on my youtube home page the other day and saw a tutorial for long exposure photography. I had figured it would be something like this.  

These photos are really great. I love working with light and shadow to create sort of surreal environments. The tutorial was on long exposure photography with absolutely no light. These images almost remind me of HDRI's. Here are some examples of Long exposure photography without lights.

I want to take out a tripod sometime and try to create some images similar to ones above. I would suspect they used a high aperture rating like f/22 or f/32 with a shutter speed of maybe around a minute or two. This is the tutorial that i saw.

Weekly Blog Post: Shadows

I saw this video a little while ago. It's basically a video of some basic skateboarding tricks but instead of filming the person, they have filmed their shadows instead. It seems rather confusing at first but once you start watching it for a couple of seconds your eyes will adjust. I love the amount of creativity in this. The amazing colours from the sun that reflect off of the pavement, mixed with the distortion of the figure and a mysterious song Give it a dream like state. We cast a shadow almost all of the time yet we never seem to realize its beauty. This video has inspired me to be more observant in hopes of finding more creative angles when I'm out filming. I would love to create a video of my own with something like this.