Not AI. But also not what a human eye would see.
To create his spectacular image – now viewed millions of times online – Brendan Larsen spent two hours in September snapping hundreds of photographs of the night sky over Mount Taranaki in the North Island.Larsen, 51, says he set his camera up to take an unlimited number of eight-second-long shots, with a two-second gap in between each photo. “I left her running for two hours and captured 578 photos … That was the easy part.”The hard part came next. Larsen spent about 45 hours layering the individual photos – each of which contained about 25 satellites – over one another, using Adobe Photoshop. Much of the time was spent painstakingly erasing stars, to reveal the satellites...The resulting image shows the sky inundated with about 1,400 satellites and 14,000 trails forming a dense crisscrossing pattern above the mountain.
More information at The Guardian.
First it's the artist's innovation, but that many? Astounding. I had no idea.
ReplyDeleteI posted a similar image to FB, Lars Leber photographer.
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While some may feel cloistered by such an array of man made machines flitting above their heads, I feel safe and secure because I know the off world aliens see things at a different time rate than we do, and so for them our precious planet is encased in a sheath of metal, each part shimmering in volatile movement, in effect a carapace of shining armour keeping the off world heathens from our door.
ReplyDeleteThink of those satellites as modern day grotesques.