It’s about time

“Pictures (exist) in nature, but only an artist, sensitive to natural harmonies, could identify them”

Time is intrinsic to photography. Every photograph was taken at a specific time and each exposure lasts for the specific duration of its creation.

Earliest photos exposure times would take seven minutes to be done.

Timing is one of the creative elements of a photograph mentioned in Project 1.

Henri Cartier-Bresson famously talked about the ‘decisive moment.’

Timing is of the essence in the creation of most photographs. Photographs can also be used to demonstrate movements and motions through time, motion can be photographed in many ways, or at least implied through photography.

This pieces shows movement through the two human figures walking on the stairs that are blurred indicating that they are moving. The stairs and background are nearly visible and not blurry,d however the two black figures are blurred to indicate fast moving figures.

This image perfectly captivates the exam moment the apple was impacted by the bullet, you can see pieces of the apple coming off the apple and being teared, and the juices exploding out of the apple, because of the perfect timing that the image was captured. This images shows movement of the bullet going through the apple and out the other side.

This image shows clear movement of a tennis racket serving a tennis ball in the air. I’m assuming the way this photo was taken was they had the model perform the movement of serving the tennis ball and then proceed to take a burst of images as he does so, then merging all the images together to create this piece, but that’s only a hunch. The image reminds me of stop motion of how we can see each movement he did in order to serve the ball.

This seems to be done in a similar way as the Tennis Serve piece by Edgerton. Several images were taken which then once merged together shows movement of ballet dancers dancing.