I have always wanted to try the long exposure of a busy place like Grand Central Station. I bet you could do it in much less than 8 hours. He's a bit of a glutton for punishment.
I have been searching all over for techincal details of Atta Kim's photography, how he is able to shoot in daylight with 8 hour exposures, etc. Has anyone experimented with these super long exposure times, and if so, how do you not overexpose the bright areas after even a short amount of time (someone mentioned ND filters, but you would need a bunch of them stacked and that would eliminate any blurring effects such as he has in his photos of NYC streets, no?)
I have been searching all over for techincal details of Atta Kim's photography, how he is able to shoot in daylight with 8 hour exposures, etc. Has anyone experimented with these super long exposure times, and if so, how do you not overexpose the bright areas after even a short amount of time (someone mentioned ND filters, but you would need a bunch of them stacked and that would eliminate any blurring effects such as he has in his photos of NYC streets, no?)
They make 15-stop ND filters for sun photography. That will take you from 1/60th of a second to about 8 minutes. It would only take 2 to easily get to 8 hours.
It would also be pretty obvious that he uses film instead of digital so he could even be using some custom film with some ungodly low ISO.
