Time is the key parameter for two fascinating ways to take beautiful and creative photos of moments and sceneries. A standard image is a full frame of a single moment. Slit-scan photography allows to capture 2D images in which one dimension is continuously and chronologically displaced.
The above image shows a windy and rainy autumn day at the beach in Ofir. It was created using ImageJ. Vertical lines of pixels were extracted from each frame of a movie and horizontally stitched together. In the meantime there is also a free program available which facilitates the creation of timeline images. One of the artists who uses a slit-scan camera to create composite series of strips is Jay Mark Johnson. The camera captures the passing movements of cars or waves and translates those into bands of colour. An object that takes a long time to pass the lens appears stretched in the final image, whereas a fast moving object appears to be crumpled.
The other technique is called time-slice photography. Photos are taken at regular time intervals and stitched together to show scenes in the course of changing daylight and lighting. Richard Silver used this technique to document the architecture of New York. Michael Marker-Moore created various montages to portrait North American cities.
New York: 38 photos spanning 2h3min
Toronto: 40 photos spanning 1h53min