art thought
May. 10th, 2007 02:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
egypturnashNot having a digital camera handy, I don't have the core tool for this one. I'd try it if I did.
Go to the middle of your city on a beautiful, sunny day. The populated, people-filled areas. Bring your camera. You'll probably want a tripod, maybe even a remote shutter-release cable.
Set it down and take a ton of photos of one location. Fairly rapid succession so they've all got pretty much the same lighting conditions.
Now bring them home and stack them all up in Photoshop. Erase every person. Erase every passing car. Erase every reflection of them.
Empty the place of life. Plants stay. But do birds? Do cats? Squirrels? That's up to you, I suppose.
To make the trick obvious I guess you'd want to do a series of this, that includes shots of famously always-busy locations. Somewhere you'd hope most viewers would see something wrong in.
Go to the middle of your city on a beautiful, sunny day. The populated, people-filled areas. Bring your camera. You'll probably want a tripod, maybe even a remote shutter-release cable.
Set it down and take a ton of photos of one location. Fairly rapid succession so they've all got pretty much the same lighting conditions.
Now bring them home and stack them all up in Photoshop. Erase every person. Erase every passing car. Erase every reflection of them.
Empty the place of life. Plants stay. But do birds? Do cats? Squirrels? That's up to you, I suppose.
To make the trick obvious I guess you'd want to do a series of this, that includes shots of famously always-busy locations. Somewhere you'd hope most viewers would see something wrong in.