Impressionistic Realism
Impressionism and Realism are two styles of art that find their way into most of my time stack images.
My favorite time stacks have both moving and/or changing elements, as well as stationary elements. I find that the stationary elements act as reference point because they are easily identified by our sense of reality. (since that's more or less how they look when we see them in person) These are the parts of the image that fall into the realism category, and I think they are important because they give context to the Impressionistic elements of the image, which I think are the most interesting parts of these images because they're unlike the reality I usually experience.
The Impressionistic elements are harder to "wrap your head around" because they are displayed in a way that we are not used to seeing with our own eyes. In this image it's the clouds changing position, shape and colour during the sunset. Instead of seeing the usual cloud shapes we're used to, this time stack image shows the clouds as colour changing trails.
Similar to the way that timelpase videos compress time (a timelapse that took hours to shoot can be viewed as a video that lasts just a few seconds) time stack images compress the recorded time even further, into a single frame.
I made this time stack by combining 216 photos into one image. Although I shot this timelapse over a 45 minute period, I only used the part of the timelapse near the end, so this image shows about 16 minutes of the timelapse. I should also mention I used a little artistic license and added the sun in from an earlier frame, near the start of the timelapse.
Impressionistic Realism
Impressionism and Realism are two styles of art that find their way into most of my time stack images.
My favorite time stacks have both moving and/or changing elements, as well as stationary elements. I find that the stationary elements act as reference point because they are easily identified by our sense of reality. (since that's more or less how they look when we see them in person) These are the parts of the image that fall into the realism category, and I think they are important because they give context to the Impressionistic elements of the image, which I think are the most interesting parts of these images because they're unlike the reality I usually experience.
The Impressionistic elements are harder to "wrap your head around" because they are displayed in a way that we are not used to seeing with our own eyes. In this image it's the clouds changing position, shape and colour during the sunset. Instead of seeing the usual cloud shapes we're used to, this time stack image shows the clouds as colour changing trails.
Similar to the way that timelpase videos compress time (a timelapse that took hours to shoot can be viewed as a video that lasts just a few seconds) time stack images compress the recorded time even further, into a single frame.
I made this time stack by combining 216 photos into one image. Although I shot this timelapse over a 45 minute period, I only used the part of the timelapse near the end, so this image shows about 16 minutes of the timelapse. I should also mention I used a little artistic license and added the sun in from an earlier frame, near the start of the timelapse.