American photographer Richard Silver has a unique way of looking at the everyday world. Using techniques like HDR, tilt shifting and vertical panorama he wants to change our way of seeing our surroundings and ourselves. With his new project, the ongoing series “Time Sliced” he is photographing iconic buildings all over the world from early in the morning to late in the evening. By shooting 36 photos at intervals and then layering them into a final composition Silver shows how the characteristic buildings change from dusk to dawn – “I came up with the Time Slice series originally in New York. I would go out at sunset, pick a spot to stand and photograph as the sun set. It took me a while to figure out that I wanted to SLICE the photos into one single photo showing the progression of day to night.”
He started to use the Tilt-Shift technique a few years ago, learning it by browsing the web. What he wanted to accomplish with it was to shrink people by using Photoshop – “What Tilt-Shift does is sort of play tricks on your eyes, it takes a two dimensional image and changes the depth of field to make objects appear closer and further away. My favourite objects are architectural subjects and buildings, they inspire me. But as far as photographing people, that isn’t one of my favourite subjects. Outdoors with a natural light I can work with better but indoor photos of people like portraits, no thank you.”
Silver has been travelling from Chile, Shanghai, India, Iceland, Italy, Turkey, Dubai and the U.K and says he would travel to any place just to photograph a special building – “When I was in Singapore I had a free day so I flew to Malaysia to photograph the the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur. I do love photographing the interiors of churches and that is how I came up with my Vertical Church series too. The amount of beauty and work put in to a building and making them so ornate fascinates me. I just want to travel and take pictures. Sounds pretty good, right?”
All pictures are taken from www.richardsilverphoto.com