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One Hour Photo by Meta tron

January 13th, 2008 3:49 PM / Location: 51.494109,-0.236270

INSTRUCTIONS: Take one photograph that documents the passage of one hour.

As soon as I saw this task I thought "cool." Immediately my mind was filled with the images I saw at the RCA once created by a student who used a scanner as a kind of camera obscura. An hour's worth of long exposure, what would that look like? How would I do that?

I have no idea how you do that.

I had an exciting idea of making a pin hole camera with a roll of film attached to a clock mechanism so it spooled for 1 hour exactly as one long photo. And if I was still at Uni I'd have all the equipment to build and develop that apparatus.

But I'm not.

So I went low-tech. My favourite kind of tech.

I burnt a candle for an hour.



This is the photo illustrating the passage of one hour.

This film illustrates how much I love my newly reacquainted mini-blow torch.

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An hours worth of candle wax

An hours worth of candle wax


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This was the first attempt

This was the first attempt

candle. - *check control candle. - *check* mini blow torch. - *check*


1 hour countdown

1 hour countdown


mini blow torch

mini blow torch

I have just figured out how to use the mini blow torch I got for my birthday about two years ago. We've had non-stop creme brulee ever since


Go, go, go!

Go, go, go!


BURN!!

BURN!!


End result...

End result...

...kinda boring.



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posted by Meta tron on January 13th, 2008 3:56 PM

Wooooohyeah!!! Top of the leader board! First and last time ever it'll happen!! Yay!!

Thank you Spidere! : D


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Is...that...me?
posted by niallsb: Forevolution on January 13th, 2008 6:36 PM

Oh my goodness! I'm in that photo!
How'd that happen?

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posted by susy derkins on January 13th, 2008 10:56 PM

Non stop crème bruleé!!!
That´s a thoughful present: my kind of toy.
Was the candle BLUE or CE-purple? Hard to say.
Mink is #1. I always thought so.

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posted by High Countess Emily on January 14th, 2008 12:31 PM

Ooh, clever!

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posted by rongo rongo on January 17th, 2008 8:28 PM

That picture totally does illustrate the passage of an hour. Perfect.

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posted by Jellybean of Thark on February 5th, 2008 8:49 PM

You sly boots. That's clever.

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posted by Meta tron on February 11th, 2008 11:10 AM

tee hee. boots.

Not the image I was looking for but close enough.
posted by Meta tron on February 12th, 2008 6:52 PM

I thought I'd go look up that RCA student's work. Strangely it's ALL been taken down and can only be glimpsed at in a handful of blogs. One photo is this:

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