Really LOOOONG exposures

[J Eddington]

How about 6 months to 3 years!
The Longest Photographic Exposures in&History - The Latest - itchy i - StumbleUpon

[venchka]

The Decisive Decade? LOL!

This quote from the article begs the question: How many photographs did he make in 18 years?

If you are interested in his works then check out his new book TIME WORKS which was just published by Schirmer/Mosel Verlag. It is an eclectic mix of Michael's creations from 1992 until now.

Interesting from a curiosity point of view. I wonder if a digital camera set to make exposures every 6 to 12 hours wouldn't produce similar effects? Assuming you could get them all stacked up.

[studiocygnet]

Sounds like he's trying to avoid saying how this is accomplished technically. I've had tiny, tiny, pinhole leaks in bellows that totally overexposed film in a day, so he's got to have some tricks involved.

[venchka]

A photographer had some photos in View Camera magazine a few years back. He used paper in a view camera. The sun would burn a path through the paper. Obviously you can't point a camera at the sun for years without some precautions.

[studiocygnet]

Yeah, I was thinking maybe something like a lens made out of welder's glass, or similar, that is mostly opaque, so it would take a long time for any light to get through. Like those glasses that you can look at an eclipse with.

[drgibson]

The book has photos from 1992...

Let's see at 3 years a photo hmm that's like 6 photos hardly a need for a book.

[J Eddington]

Originally Posted by venchka

I wonder if a digital camera set to make exposures every 6 to 12 hours wouldn't produce similar effects? Assuming you could get them all stacked up.

I think it would give a very similar effect. The photos that I liked were the dying flowers!

[venchka]

Has anybody come up with multiple esposures in a digicam?