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Extreme Long Exposure Photography

By DSLRBlog Editors | Published July 13, 2006

New York Times have profiled a photographer, Atta Kim who takes long exposures to new lengths.

Every day, hundreds of tourists snap photographs of a crowd- and car-jammed Times Square. The average picture takes — what? — 15 seconds to shoot? The same picture of the same place takes the Korean photographer Atta Kim eight hours. And his Times Square ends up with only an eerie trace of a human presence, like a deserted movie set.

It’s an interesting technique. While many of probably wouldn’t take an hour long exposure of a couple making love like he did (exposure being the operative word) some of the other stuff would be cool to try out.

(If you do not have a NY Times account, just head over to BugMeNot)

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World War I Colour Photographs

By DSLRBlog Editors | Published January 10, 2006

Emir of Bukhara
Damn Interesting » Color Photos From the World War I Era

Color film was non-existent in 1909 Russia, yet in that year a photographer named Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii embarked on a photographic survey of his homeland and captured hundreds of photos in full, vivid color.

Just goes to show what a distorted view we get of the era through the grainy, faded black and white and sepia prints we have to go by. What a genius this guy must have been!

I must admit when I first read about it I thought it was some sort of joke or trick. Pretty cool!

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