Claudio Branch Posted March 30, 2012 Share Posted March 30, 2012 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2122554/At-worlds-end-Artists-reveal-stunning-post-apocalyptic-images-worlds-major-cities.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJLynn Posted March 30, 2012 Share Posted March 30, 2012 That's interesting, but the part about "Instead of multiple exposures, the team used a neutral density filter..." confuses me. These clearly aren't long exposures. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Claudio Branch Posted March 30, 2012 Author Share Posted March 30, 2012 Well, confusion is my middle name. Which is really funny considering I don't have a middle name....parents were too cheap I guess. Anyhoo...figure out how they did this and then tell me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommy L Posted March 30, 2012 Share Posted March 30, 2012 That's interesting, but the part about "Instead of multiple exposures, the team used a neutral density filter..." confuses me. These clearly aren't long exposures. I just copied that sentence and was ready to paste.... Im confused too, I dont know what a neutral density filter is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Claudio Branch Posted March 30, 2012 Author Share Posted March 30, 2012 ND filters are typically used to selectively darken portions of an image in a physical camera. They also exist digitally in software. I use one religiously in post. Apparently, they are also used to make immense crowds of people disappear... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sindala Posted March 30, 2012 Share Posted March 30, 2012 maybe "neutral density filter" means sunday morning just after sunrise? I used to live in the center of Amsterdam and one sundaymorning after working all night i went out for a walk and dam square looked almost like this, only with more litter. Beautiful Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJLynn Posted March 30, 2012 Share Posted March 30, 2012 Neutral density darkens without adding color. Graduated neutral density has a gradient of darkness, so if you have a bright sky and darker ground you can balance them. (This is more important if you shoot landscape on slide film, which has lower dynamic range / latitude than print film and newer digital.) Regular neutral density is for slowing the shutter. Usually when you see a shot of moving water that's white that's what was used. Suppose they used two 6-stop ND filters and the exposure would have been 1/200, it would end up as 20 second exposure. So I'm assuming what the statement about ND filters means is that they got the exposure to be really long so the people would be moving around and blurring. Only that doesn't make sense, because there would be other indications - the flag would be a blur, the water would be white, the lone people wouldn't possibly stay still enough so they'd be blurry, and you's still see evidence that there were people there moving around. So I don't believe them. I think what they did was go early in the morning so there wouldn't be a lot of people, take multiple exposures so they'd have the most areas of bare ground they could get, shoot in overcast conditions so the shadows wouldn't be moving, stack them in Photoshop and go layer by layer. I think I might be seeing some very subtle artifacts from Photoshopping. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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