Picture of foot of pedestrian

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Hi,

remember a picture of a pedestrian where due to longer exposure just his foot on the ground was visible, and the body of the person was invisible/blurred.

Can somebody please point me to this picture and who made it? I just don't find it right now.

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chris
 

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Alexey Titarenko?

Alexey Titarenko

Alexey Titarenko was born in 1962 in St. Petersburg. His monograph The City is a Novel features over 140 photographs of his work in St. Petersburg, Venice, Havana, and New York.
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You may be thinking of the one in this pdf
 

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No. It was just the foot visible on the picture and also more prominent. Think of taking a picture of a bypasser, but just seeing the foot.
 

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Do you mean this picture by Otto Steinert?
 

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me curious, how it was shot?
 

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I used that picture as a project and discussion with students. Pre photoshop and film only, how was it done?
 

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cliveh said:
I used that picture as a project and discussion with students. Pre photoshop and film only, how was it done?
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Most likely with a "model" who was very good at moving their body extensively while leaving at least one foot planted in place.
Most likely a dancer or street performer/contortionist.
That and a tripod mounted camera and a long exposure time.
Apparently, the internet offers everything
An example of a dance style that might be similar: https://www.redbull.com/ca-en/a-history-of-afropop-dance-crazes
 

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Sounds like that is probably the answer, Matt so thanks. To bring it off however to the extent shown the person must have been someone with quite special body movement such as a specialist dancer

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Or, perhaps the original photograph was taken of just a prop consisting of a shoe and part trouser leg and the darkened blur was added to the print to conceal the trick.
 

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This is an image of an environment activist who super-glued his left shoe to the bitumen and then travelled back in time for his image to be taken by Otto Steinert. The photograph depicts the moment of the time-space jump.
 

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Deja-vu

We had this discussion before.

It’s a bit of rhythm and B. Hold the shutter release down when the pedestrian plants their foot and let up when they finish the step.

Pedestrian's Foot, Slug Bug 2

Re-creation of Otto Steinert's effect to illustrate thread Pedestrian's Foot
www.photrio.com
 
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Of course we can never know how many similar exposures were made of that subject... leaving the photographer to select the right one while viewing the contact proofs.
Not to mention repeating the shot, if the first session didn't get the desired result. Or any number of scenarios... it would be foolish to assume that we're looking at a "decisive moment" or grab shot.
 

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As the title suggests, I only took a few exposures. My daughter doesn’t usually like when I ask her to pose, so I only needed a few shots once thr plan was in place.

As I say, the trick is to use B for best timing of the end of the shot. And don’t worry about exposing properly. It’s OK to overexpose black and white negative film.
 
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