Here are two links to the best ghost-like pictures I have seen in a long time. The work of
Alexey Titarenko
<http://www.google.com/search?q=Alexey+Titarenko&hl=en&rlz=1T4GGHP_enUS365US371&prmd=ivnso&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=8hVcTpTECrDLsQLzjJUu&ved=0CCgQsAQ&biw=1680&bih=814>
Alexey Titarenko: the ghosts of change
http://exposurecompensation.com/2008/03/13/alexey-titarenko-the-ghosts-of-change/
He has three youtube videos that show him at work. Keith Carter used him as an example in the Santa Fe Workshop I took in July.
Youtube links (long but worth it)
A documentary about the Russian photographer Alexey Titarenko from St. Petersburg. produced by 'IMAGE ET COMPAGNIE' for the French-German TV Channel ARTE.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMxOqvIBaDU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrhR4Sk-dsE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24nY4xI-Vbo&feature=related
HTH,
Rene
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Rene M. Hales
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From: owner-photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kostas Papakotas
Sent: Saturday, August 27, 2011 4:04 PM
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Subject: Re: First Photographic Emulsions Exposure Time?
well getting some blury, ghost-like images of people is my intention. regarding gear, I have an +3 ND and a polarizer. Lwest iso is 100 but I can overexpose one stop. Then there are the local club members that can easily lent me oen more ND, I ahve a bunck of adpaters to fit all dimensions form 42 to 77.... So...what you'd be the first camera speed to try? (the go from there since we are talking digital) and I am not sure...is there an exposure reciprocity issue with digital sensors?
--- Στις Σάβ., 27/08/11, ο/η Andrew Davidhazy <andpph@xxxxxxx> έγραψε:
I'd opine that the exposure times would have to be quite a bit longer than 2 seconds for pedestrian traffic and bystanders to "disappear" from an exposure. I'd probably go for a minute or three or more. Anyone who is loitering (such as the shoeshine scene in a "famous" photograph pretty much devoid of anything that moved - or a scene in Grand Central Station where again there is little evidence of human presence) will of course still be visible albeit maybe a bit blurry - nless it is a sleeting individual. :) just my opinion ... to get such long exposure times at relatively high sensor speeds you'd probably use neutral density filters ... or maybe a couple of stacked partially crossed polarizers .
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