Most shoots I do involve a lot of planning and patience, as I have to stand at a location for up to three hours, capturing all the frames I need to show the passing of time. Richard loves using techniques such as Tilt Shift, Vertical Panoramas and Time Slice to present our everyday world in an altered visual context. I have been shooting timeslice photos for some time now, and the only way to show time passing in a single image requires just that: time.
He loves iconic architecture, whether it’s ancient or modern, and is always focused on documenting beautiful structures in each new city he visits. Mike Harris shows you how to shoot and edit a time-slice composite to convey the passage of time in a single image. Richard’s love for travel has afforded him many opportunities to shoot different cities and cultures.
Although his former career paths include everything from computer science, to Wall Street, to real estate in Manhattan, he’s always maintained his passion for photography and started shooting full time in 2011. Richard has visited 101 countries and more than 350 cities in his life. This article originally appeared in the May 2015 issue of Better Photography.Richard Silver is New York born and bred, (raised in Brooklyn and now lives in South Florida), but to him, home is where his camera is. This will soften the edges that appear in the image. Across the course of minutes and hours, Marker-Moore uses a tripod and a lot of patience to document beautiful cityscapes, the. Los Angeles-based photographer Dan Marker-Moore captures long periods of time through creative Time Slice photography. If you want to avoid this from showing up in the frame, apply a slight amount of Gaussian Blur (from the Filter menu) to each Layer Mask. Amazing Time Slice Collages Represent Hours of Passing Time. With this techinque, however, the individual slices will be noticeable in the final picture. Do this for all the layers, until you have your image. Now invert the selection using CTRL + I and mask out the rest of the image from that layer. Using the Rectangular Marquee Tool select the slice you want to keep. Let each image be on a separate layer, each with a layer mask of its own. The location will vary from month to month and each photo walk could last 2-3 hours up to an all-day excursion. Import all the images (preferably RAWs to maximise the colours in the final image) into Adobe Photoshop or Lightroom and edit them individually to get the most colour out of them. We will be visiting various locations, ranging from within the Dallas metroplex to about a 3-hour driving range from Rowlett, to share our enjoyment of photography.
You will need a layer-based editing software for this technique to work. This should give you a better idea of how to create a 'time slice' image. Select between 50–100 images that show the best gradation. If it is a cityscape you are shooting, we recommend shooting in the evening as you will be able to capture the building and street lights as they illuminate the night sky. The variations in light will be maximum during this time. Have your setup ready at least an hour before the golden hours and shoot for an hour after they pass. As much as possible get things right in-camera itself. Depending on how detailed you want your final image to be, this interval can be from being 10 minute gaps to shooting every 30 seconds. Set your camera on a tripod, so that the composition remains constant and start shooting single images at regular intervals of time. Dan travelled Hong Kong and Shanghai to shoot the same.
Warning: Not for the impatient photographer.įinding a great spot to shoot from is paramount. Watch as LA based photographer Dan Marker-Moore shows us how he stitches hundreds of photos together to make one Time Slice image. Qty: View cart () Continue shopping Submit.
This is done by photographing the same frame numerous times and then combining them together. Beautiful California photographs that capture the essence of beauty. As the name suggests, this technique captures slices of time in a single photograph.