
A guy in Canada took a year-long image of the Totonto skyline, with some neat results:
The camera, a simple black box, was mounted to the side of a rusty metal box next to a shipping beacon near the shipping canal. Chrisman used tape and a few bricks to “secure and position the camera for its long wait,” he said in an email exchange with the Star.
Chrisman, a 31-year-old freelance editorial and art photographer, put it there on Jan. 1, 2011, knowing a lot could go wrong. Mishaps could include the camera being stolen, which has happened in some of his earlier time-exposure experiments.
“The biggest difficulty,” he explained, “is trying to ensure the camera will be there when you return.
“As I’ve become more brazen with regard to installing them in more public or more populated areas, more and more cameras have gone missing. I mark down the dates to retrieve the cameras on a calendar; it is such a slow process that the best thing I can do is forget about the cameras so I don’t obsess about them.”
The nature of the exposure will likely result in a muddy look. There will be no shadows, no sun flares off windows. The cumulative effect of a moving light — that would be the sun and moon — will flatten the image.
The most intriguing aspect of the photo, said Chrisman, may be the “trails left by the sun as it moves through the sky both throughout the day and as the seasons change.”
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