This week I started the Third Eye class (with Greg Cradick) at Working With Artists. After discussing critique, we proceeded to discuss the influence of time in photography. This gave me inspiration to try making a few different images.
My morning commute starts at the University of Denver light rail station. While riding the light rail on Thursday, I made several multiple exposure images of the busy traffic on I-25. This image is the one that best shows frenetic busy traffic, with cars rushing towards their destination.
Traffic On The Interstate
This is not the first time that I have experimented with in-camera multiple exposures. You can see some more images using this technique in World Wide Photowalk – wk31 and Garden Flowers and Bees – wk32.
On Friday, I made another attempt by making more images. This time I wanted to make an image of the train arriving at the station. A skateboard came riding down the platform while waiting for his train.
Multiple Skateboarders
His train arrived and then he was gone, so I turned my attention to the station bench for another subject.
Multiple Benches
Soon I heard my train arriving behind me. I hurried to make a series of exposures that included at least one image where the train had passed by. Just what I was hoping for!
The Train Is Arriving
At class, Greg described how to make a video from several images with iMovie. I made several sequences of images while riding on the train. After several unsuccessful attempts with iMovie, I did manage to create a video with Lightroom. Here is the result of my attempt.
This is a nine second time lapse using three separate image clips. I had to wait until the camera had written its buffer to card before doing the next clip. Hence the two breaks in the sequence. More time was spent in trying to get this video into this blog post than making images and assembling the video. But it was all fun.