Research. Enigma of Time.

Bill Wadman

Bill Wadman is an American portrait photographer living in Brooklyn, New York. His images have been seen on the covers and pages of major publications throughout the world.

He has been known and noticed for his long-exposure ‘Motion’ project and it has been featured in Popular Photography, Eloquence, and PhotoYou magazines.

He works well in both the technical side and the natural eye for photography. This photographer is interested in every subject.

Fluid and graceful is one way of describing dancers due to being noted for their routines of spinning across an open stage.

This photographer wanted to capture these movements, however, in an unconventional way. He wanted to use long exposure to actually capture and track their movements on camera as a still. He used modern ballerinas.

One of the dancers spoke about their experience with the photographer and coming up with the right amount of time.

“It was really difficult to move at the exact right speed to capture the ribbons of movement, but after a few hours, I finally figured it out. If you actually had been sitting in on the session, I would have looked like a crazy, dancing monkey trying to cross about 6 feet of space fluidly in about 6 seconds. But the photos look amazing!”

I looked into this photographer, as I am very interested in the idea of capturing movement and creating a ghostly figure in the aspect of tracking their movements. I find it fascinating to see what comes up on the camera due to the fact that it isn’t always guaranteed what is going to happen and as a first year at university photography student, I want to take the chance to experiment in the studio with studio lighting.

I believe that these images are extremely soft and the photographs really create and show the fluid movements and the tiniest about of movement in the flow of the dancers. The skin tone and the red clothing is very noticeable against the black background.