Where Even PocketWizard Dare Not Tread
And now, your Moment of Zen.
Many thanks to Strobist reader Chano Reus for the heads-up on a Spanish-language blog post detailing the light-painting … of an entire city.
No fewer than fifty photographers in the Asociación Fotográfica de Toledo participated in the making of this complex and highly choreographed image of Toledo, Spain.
NOTE: The post now has English and Spanish versions embedded within the copy. Thanks for that!
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Posted at 1:03 AM.
37 Comments:
all i can say about this amazing image "HOLY TOLEDO" :q
ARRRRRRRGGGHHHHHH!
I generally pride myself on the blog's headline writing. And yet here I sit, bested by the first commenter.
I need a drink.
Oh my God!! Amazing idea and amazing photo!!!
Sorry, the page you requested contains a file type (text/xml) we are unable to translate.
http://www.caborian.com/20101022/pintando-con-luz-toda-una-ciudad/
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Amazing. Truly Amazing....
David, you gotta do one for Baltimore, :))
Great idea and amazing execution. Two tumbs up from Poland.
What sort of lights did they use? what... how... wh... Wow!
I want to see it BIGGER! That is stunning.
Link seems to be broken.
I'm getting an error on the "machine translated" link. How ironic that I need a translation of the error in order to understand the error!!
Unfortunately link was broken when I tried this morning. :(
"Even though we didn't need great accuracy, the time synch was achieved by previous adjustments through exact Internet time, system far less scandalous than other proposals we had thought of, such as firing rockets, flares and such and that we got to consider very seriously because of their foreseeable effectiveness."
THAT would have been awesome.
It appears the link is no longer working. The staff and students of the School of Photographic Arts & Sciences at RIT have been doing something similar for about 25 years, called the Big Shot. They illuminate different scenes at night using nothing more than hand held strobes. There have been some really cool shots too, like the USS Intrepid and Mt. Hope Cemetery in Rochester. I think this shot probably trumps the Big Shot in scale though.
http://www.rit.edu/cias/bigshot/
Very, very cool. Now I'm inspired to do some flash painting at my house.
It is entirely possible to do this shoot with PocketWizards, though rather costly and you run the risk of high instance of theft. I think I'd like to do it just for the satisfaction of setting off so many flashes over such a great territory at once. By myself. Booyah. But . . . there's something to be said for the camaraderie built in involving so many people in the project. Really great idea. I'm jealous that I didn't think of it first. But, I don't live in a place where that can work out very well anyway.
Doesn't work here... I'm sad...
It gives me an error in spanish.
I can't get the link to work, says unable to translate the text
Agh! I cant read spanish and google translate isn't working, how was this lit?!
Try the translation at this link:
http://babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_url?doit=done&tt=url&intl=1&fr=bf-home&trurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.caborian.com%2F20101022%2Fpintando-con-luz-toda-una-ciudad%2F&lp=es_en&btnTrUrl=Translate
You can always use Yahoo's BabelFish Translation.
Hi David:
I´m Chano Reus again, who told you about the Toledo light-painted picture.
I´ve see that the google translator is not working, so I have included the english translation (in italics) in the original post in Caborian
http://www.caborian.com/20101022/pintando-con-luz-toda-una-ciudad/
Thanks a lot!
I´m gland that you foud it whorty
regards,
Chano
This photo has been for us a great experience. Thank you all
You can see the bigger picture here. Sorry for the watermarks
http://www.afotoledo.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=177&Itemid=121
Here you can find translated.
http://www.caborian.com/20101022/pintando-con-luz-toda-una-ciudad
you can now read the text in english in caborian.com
just.. wow..!
(btw, the article has English(ish) translation in it, which, with some mind bending, should get the non-spanish reading peeps the info)
That is quite an undertaking.
I was in Toledo a couple years ago and shot a night pano from nearly the same spot. Without the aid of 50 flashers and months of planning, mine did not turn out nearly so nice!
That computer generated English is a hoot and worth the read just to see how tortured it is... :)
I used flash light painting in architectural photography before (it took time to get proper results) but to do it at this scale is amazing. Must have been exciting for those who participated.
What a bunch of overachievers. Wow! Just wow!
David:
ARRRRRRRGGGHHHHHH!
I generally pride myself on the blog's headline writing. And yet here I sit, bested by the first commenter.
I need a drink.
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Laughing my head off! :D
Amazing idea, amazing execution, incredible result. Well done!
Wow, that's a lot of flash lights.
hey david, shall we do a manhattan version?
It is very nice but the question is will a non photographer look at this and think wow what a photo or as i suspect will they just see a " city at night ". I am not knocking the effort at all dont get me wrong , its a fun thing for sure.
Unreal....love the creativity and perspective
David-
That's what they should see. It shouldn't draw attention to the process.
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