Painting with light is a pet project of low-tech digital SLR owners. Put the camera on a tripod in a dark environment, set the shutter speed for extra long exposure, and create designs with a flashlight or other light source focused. Frank Schott Cagnon Croix and have taken this concept and has taken a new turn beautiful and mysterious with a MacBook Pro, a Hasselblad H2 with a digital back, and 1871 cross sections photographed the corpse of an executed murderer.
Project 12:31 is the resulting series of seven long-exposure photographs showing ghostly figures floating in outdoor environments. The images were captured by the laptop on the move during exposure, while playing an animation of images compiled.
The body in question belongs to Joseph Paul Jernigan, a Texas death convict who had killed an old man when the man Jernigan caught stealing a microwave oven. Just before his execution by lethal injection in 1993, Jernigan donated his body for use in scientific or medical research. Eventually, it became part of the Human Visual, a U.S. effort National Library of Medicine to create detailed 3D models of the human body. Jernigan cross segmented body was frozen due to wear of a millimeter at a time. After each layer is removed, the result of cross section of the body was photographed. The 1871 film photographs were scanned, and scanned photos over time became an animation.
Croix Gagnon, art-directed the series, had been experimenting with long exposure photography three years ago, when he encountered the Visible Human Project in Wikipedia. "I'm interested in intellectual property issues and the death penalty, and I wanted this project to promote the talks on both," said Cagnon Macworld. Frank Schott was brought on board as the photographer, and Alex Katz did post-production. The final images produced by the group showed bright cluster of figures in the moody night scenes.
A Cagnon favorite parts of the project was to use a technique known photograph of a new and unique. "From a technical standpoint, this project could have been done for decades. There's nothing particularly high-tech about the process." Prints of the seven pictures at 12:31 Project are for sale on the website of the project, with all profits going to Amnesty International.
Project 12:31 is the resulting series of seven long-exposure photographs showing ghostly figures floating in outdoor environments. The images were captured by the laptop on the move during exposure, while playing an animation of images compiled.The body in question belongs to Joseph Paul Jernigan, a Texas death convict who had killed an old man when the man Jernigan caught stealing a microwave oven. Just before his execution by lethal injection in 1993, Jernigan donated his body for use in scientific or medical research. Eventually, it became part of the Human Visual, a U.S. effort National Library of Medicine to create detailed 3D models of the human body. Jernigan cross segmented body was frozen due to wear of a millimeter at a time. After each layer is removed, the result of cross section of the body was photographed. The 1871 film photographs were scanned, and scanned photos over time became an animation.
Croix Gagnon, art-directed the series, had been experimenting with long exposure photography three years ago, when he encountered the Visible Human Project in Wikipedia. "I'm interested in intellectual property issues and the death penalty, and I wanted this project to promote the talks on both," said Cagnon Macworld. Frank Schott was brought on board as the photographer, and Alex Katz did post-production. The final images produced by the group showed bright cluster of figures in the moody night scenes.
A Cagnon favorite parts of the project was to use a technique known photograph of a new and unique. "From a technical standpoint, this project could have been done for decades. There's nothing particularly high-tech about the process." Prints of the seven pictures at 12:31 Project are for sale on the website of the project, with all profits going to Amnesty International.
