CourtneyPaolicelli
Week 2-Paolicelli
Although I actually made this photo during week 1, I am including it for my submission for week two because I thought it was a good example of an interesting photo made with a long shutter speed. In this case, the shutter speed was 15 seconds. I was drawn to the way the light bright shone on the girl’s face and captured her facial expressions even as her positioning changed.
The artist whose work struck me this week was Michael Wesely’s collection of flowers, Stileben. In this collection, the flowers are displayed in a vase on a clean, monochrome surface with a plain wall in the background. The extended length of the exposure (i.e., several days) allowed the artist to capture the lifecycle of the flowers, as they can be observed in both their freshly-cut and wilted stages. I will admit that prior to this class, when I thought of “long exposures,” I thought of photos made over the course of multiple seconds or even minutes – I never considered you could make a photo over several days, weeks or years! The Stileban collection stood out to me because it demonstrated how even a “still” image could capture time or, in this case, the lifecycle of a plant.
Week 2-Paolicelli
Although I actually made this photo during week 1, I am including it for my submission for week two because I thought it was a good example of an interesting photo made with a long shutter speed. In this case, the shutter speed was 15 seconds. I was drawn to the way the light bright shone on the girl’s face and captured her facial expressions even as her positioning changed.
The artist whose work struck me this week was Michael Wesely’s collection of flowers, Stileben. In this collection, the flowers are displayed in a vase on a clean, monochrome surface with a plain wall in the background. The extended length of the exposure (i.e., several days) allowed the artist to capture the lifecycle of the flowers, as they can be observed in both their freshly-cut and wilted stages. I will admit that prior to this class, when I thought of “long exposures,” I thought of photos made over the course of multiple seconds or even minutes – I never considered you could make a photo over several days, weeks or years! The Stileban collection stood out to me because it demonstrated how even a “still” image could capture time or, in this case, the lifecycle of a plant.