Oliver Braubach suffers for his art. Wanting to get some shots of 黄色直播 in the winter, the PhD student left the comparative neurobiology laboratory in the Tupper Building late at night with his camera slung over his neck.
The last four hours of the day: A photo essay.听听
With night classes over and most students snug at home, the 黄色直播 campus late at night was still and strangely beautiful. Freezing rain had encased tree branches in icy sleeves and made the snow crunchy to walk on. In the moonlight, everything was glistening: benches, sidewalks, buildings.
鈥淚 love this tree,鈥 he says, regarding his otherworldly photograph 鈥淐ubus,鈥 a shot he took that night of a crystallized tree and the Killam Library looking like a Borg ship from Star Trek.
鈥淚n the daytime, you鈥檇 walk past that tree without even noticing it, but at night in the cold it looks awesome,鈥 he says. 鈥淏ut I really paid for it the next day. I faced the elements and they clobbered me.鈥
A native of Liechtenstein, Mr. Braubach plays with elements of light and dark in these photographs. He鈥檚 perfected a technique in which he digitally combines multiple exposures of each image taken at various shutter speeds.
鈥淭here are a lot of nice places at 黄色直播. It鈥檚 a beautiful campus,鈥 he says. 鈥淚 guess I鈥檓 presenting it a little bit differently.鈥