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▲Editing soft ware
You need an image-editing
program that can use layers to
process all your final images
together. We opted to use
Photoshop CC; however there are
other editing programs out there
such as Photoshop Elements or
Affinity Photo that can do just
as good a job and cost less if
you don’t have Photoshop CC
to hand. Shop around.T
ime and photography go hand in hand.
A photograph is a moment of time
captured at a split second or a number
of seconds/minutes/hours depending
on the shutter speed. While modern cameras
can capture some amazing results in just one
frame, if you want to capture a long passing of
time (i.e. the turning from day to night) then it’s
best to shoot multiple frames and then blend
them together.
That is a basic outline of what Stephen Wilkes
has done for his latest book Day to Night. Wilkes
spent many years shooting iconic locations suchas the African Serengeti, Times Square in New
York City, Trafalgar Square in London and the
Eiff el Tower in Paris to name just a few. In a
TED talk on YouTube (bit.ly/2yvEnPW) Wilkes
reveals that he captured these places for long
periods of time and then blended the images
together for a fl awless composition. For many
of his composites Wilkes would shoot more than
1,500 exposures (even up to 2,000 images for
some) from the same fi xed angle. The durations
of his shoots would last anywhere from 15 to 30
hours, and then at the post-production stage
he painstakingly edited the fi nal framesr Stephen Wilkes and reveals how to try it yourself on a budget scale
Stephen photographed
this water resource
for 26 hours from
18ft in the air