Bob HorowitzMay 27

Happy hump day, everyone. Here in San Francisco it is a mild, almost cloudless, blue sky day. Terrible for gloomy photography but a good day to get outside and generate some vitamin D's. Yuck.

Anyway... a couple of days ago I posted a monochrome, 10-second, lens-zoom photo of a bridge. Here is another, taken a few minutes earlier. This one was taken with a different zoom pattern. Instead of 5 steady seconds followed by a 5 second zoom, this one used 3 steady, 4 zoom, and 3 more steady.

The pattern mattered. Instead of a picture with light streaks, this result was more "abstract double-exposure." It's a bit of a hot mess but still kinda cool.

FYI, the original bridge post was here:
https://sfba.social/@BobHorowitz/116636307707618863

#photography #LongExposure #LensZoom

Show threadAmbivalena May 27

@BobHorowitz love to see creativity like this one (enjoy it a lot) it is so fun to play around and to watch.

One day you think that you can't come up with anyrhing new, and then comes another day along and you realize that you can. 😍

Show threadBob Horowitz

@ambivalena
In my incoming feed, you are the queen of double exposures. I don't see many people experimenting with it, perhaps because it is hard or even impossible to get most digital cameras to stop advancing the frame. It has to be done using post-processing skills.

Anyway, thank you Lena 👍

May 27 at 4:37pmWeb
Show threadAmbivalena May 27
@BobHorowitz That is very kind of you to say 💚
I think that I was lucky that my first digital camera didn't have the possibility to do in-camera double-x's, so from scratch I had to experiment with long exposure until I could by a camera that could. And in a way also lucky I had no experience of photography, so I had no "rules" for how to make them. That process/progress have been so fun and frustrating and learnt me so much I would not have dared otherwise, because "you can't do that" 😄