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              November 27, 2012
              Mike Kelley

              Shinichi Maruyama Photographs Nude Dancers With Long Exposures And Creates Interesting Results

              Shinichi Maruyama is a fine art photographer based in New York City who specializes in abstract images which feature natural forms captured in a variety of ways. For one of his most recent projects, Shinichi photographed nude dancers using long exposure photography to create some very interesting (and beautiful, to boot) images. I haven’t seen dancers photographed this way before, and it was definitely a breath of fresh air. It’s interesting to see how fluid and smooth the motions of the figures are, and how it translates into a two-dimensional medium.


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              • http://www.facebook.com/people/Matthew-Lee/603776763 Matthew Lee

                Captivating! Simply amazing images!

              • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1374609376 Tim Krueger

                Bananas! 

              • http://www.bertmclendon.com Bert McLendon

                These aren’t just interesting these are badass!  Love’em!

              • Christopher Rakoczy

                I’m trying to figure out the technique…. perhaps shooting video to get a very high frame rate, then stacking tons of images with a particular Blend Mode in Photoshop… they look oddly solid, yet wonderfully fluid.
                 

              • http://twitter.com/awerllow awerllow

                Nope! No boobies, not nude…

              • Kyle Kuykendall

                That the figures are nude seems irrelevant other than for hue uniformity, so I’m glad to read the minimal emphasis FS placed on that fact.  I love the absence of translation, too – I think movement across the frame might have taken away from the gorgeous forms of gyration/rotation.  I would love to see exploration of differing skin tones and lighting angles.  I’m not sure why but several invoke a sense of listening.

              • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=15915653 Mike Newton

                Its very difficult to figure this one out!  I cant get my head around how they aren’t transparent like typical long exposure motion.  I’d love to know how it was done.

              • Martin

                Ace!

              • http://twitter.com/Devarya Devanshu Arya

                 Yes exactly my point.

              • http://twitter.com/Devarya Devanshu Arya

                 Yes exactly my point.

              • http://twitter.com/neoCrimeLabs Michael Henry

                Quoting PetaPixel.com who also published an article about the same set:

                “Although the photographs look like long-exposure shots, they’re actually composite images created by combining ten thousand individual photographs of each dancer. The result is a look in which each model’s body is (mostly) lost within the blur of its movement.”

                10000 Images seems like quite a lot, but could be from video.  Using a Phantom that’s only a few seconds even at 2K.  Perhaps stacked with something like “enfuse”.

                It would explain why the images are so solid and sharp, at least.

                Regardless how it’s done, it’s beautiful.

              • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=644161013 Reginald Tremain

                That’s what I noticed too. They do look rather solidified for long exposure images. What ever technique is used, I want to know it, cause it is captivating!

              • http://www.facebook.com/svedle Christer Svedle

                I don’t think these images is the result of just stacking a lot of images. I think it is a result of layering several stackings of different bodyparts. Its too solid even in the blurred parts. You can see the leg sweeping in front of the body totally solid. That must be masked out in one way or the other I think.

              • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=883990161 Raffaella De Amicis

                Uh-Mazing! True art – very unique concept and skilled execution.

              • http://twitter.com/Too_Creative Lorenzo P

                absolutely stunning!!!!! 

              • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1085556554 David Huff

                Truly unique.  Reminds me of antelope canyon.

              • http://www.facebook.com/atta.shaan Atta Shaan

                Captivating! an amazing Idea.

              • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1558692487 Jack Long

                As a long time admirer of Shinichi’s work, I am impressed and humbled by his vision and execution.

              • Christopher Rakoczy

                Interesting additional info on PetaPixel, as noted below. Also, I wonder if they were shot against a dead black background and composited against a virtual gray backdrop, since there are darker edges and shadows than I would expect with any additive sort of blending.

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