【视频】| 如何拍出壮阔景观的日夜星辰（下） 听演讲练翻译-ETtalk365粪肉
听演讲练翻译18.Mar.TEDTHE SPEAKER
Stephen99伞兵刀 ?Wilkes潞安吧 ?Narrative photographer
By blending up to 100 still photographs into a seamless composite that captures the transition from day to night, Stephen Wilkes reveals the stories hidden in familiar locations.
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（7：34）This is one of the most historical moments I've been able to photograph中华读书网 , the 2013 Presidential Inauguration of Barack Obama. And if you look closely in this picture, you can actually see time changing in those large television sets.
You can see Michelle waiting with the children, the president now greets the crowd周耀中 , he takes his oath, and now he's speaking to the people. There's so many challenging aspects when I create photographs like this.
For this particular photograph棍王的抗战 , I was in a 50-foot scissor lift up in the air and it was not very stable. So every time my assistant and I shifted our weight, our horizon line shifted. So for every picture you see, and there were about 1,800 in this picture, we both had to tape our feet into position every time I clicked the shutter.
I've learned so many extraordinary things doing this work. I think the two most important are patience and the power of observation. When you photograph a city like New York from above, I discovered that those people in cars that I sort of live with everyday, they don't look like people in cars anymore.
They feel like a giant school of fish, it was a form of emergent behavior. And when people describe the energy of New York,宗一童 I think this photograph begins to really capture that. When you look closer in my work, you can see there's stories going on.
You realize that Times Square is a canyon, it's shadow and it's sunlight. So I decided, in this photograph遗爱网 , I would checkerboard time. So wherever the shadows are, it's night and wherever the sun is, it's actually day.
Time is this extraordinary thing that we never can really wrap our heads around. But in a very unique and special way, I believe these photographs begin to put a face on time.
They embody a new metaphysical visual reality. When you spend 15 hours looking at a place, you're going to see things a little differently than if you or I walked up with our camera, took a picture抱团网, and then walked away.
This was a perfect example. I call it "Sacré-Coeur Selfie." I watched over 15 hours all these people not even look at Sacré-Coeur. They were more interested in using it as a backdrop. They would walk up, take a picture地球队长, and then walk away.
And I found this to be an absolutely extraordinary example, a powerful disconnect between what we think the human experience is versus what the human experience is evolving into. The act of sharing has suddenly become more important than the experience itself. (Applause)
And finally, my most recent image绥中招聘网 , which has such a special meaning for me personally: this is the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania. And this is photographed in the middle of the Seronera, this is not a reserve. I went specifically during the peak migration to hopefully capture the most diverse range of animals. Unfortunately盂县天气预报 , when we got there, there was a drought going on during the peak migration柯凡录音门 , a five-week drought.
So all the animals were drawn to the water. I found this one watering hole, and felt if everything remained the same way it was behaving, I had a real opportunity to capture something unique.
We spent three days studying it, and nothing could have prepared me for what I witnessed during our shoot day. I photographed for 26 hours in a sealed crocodile blind双凤奇案 , 18 feet in the air. What I witnessed was unimaginable.
Frankly巨能特钢吧 , it was Biblical. We saw, for 26 hours特搜战队 , all these competitive species share a single resource called water. The same resource that humanity is supposed to have wars over during the next 50 years. The animals never even grunted at each other. They seem to understand something that we humans don't. That this precious resource called water is something we all have to share.
When I created this picture, I realized that Day to Night is really a new way of seeing, compressing time, exploring the space-time continuum within a photograph.
As technology evolves along with photography赵小熠 , photographs will not only communicate a deeper meaning of time and memory, but they will compose a new narrative of untold stories, creating a timeless window into our world.
Thank you.
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