This is a brief excerpt from PetaPixel
Earlier today, we showed you a number of time-lapse videos of Winter Storm Nemo that were created by people who were stuck indoors due to the heavy snowfall. New York-based photographer Brian Maffitt was also stuck indoors and he also turned to photography, but instead of shooting time-lapse photos, he turned to a different technique: long-exposure light painting.
His technique is rather interesting: instead of a flashlight, Maffitt projected a movie onto the falling snow in order to light up the snowflakes.
Maffitt tells us that he has been experimenting with long-exposure and low-light photography for a number of years now. He did try to use flashlights at first, but they didn’t provide enough light to illuminate the snowfall.
He then pulled out his old video projector, loaded up the movie “The Lorax,” and pointed it out his upstairs window into the darkness. You might be wondering why Maffitt chose the movie he did. Here’s his explanation:
It was at the top of the list under “Children’s Movies” on Netflix. I assumed a children’s movie would give me a nice selection of saturated colors, as opposed to using something like “Citizen Kane”. However, when the snow …
By: Michael Zhang
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