So, finally got round to taking my Time photo! I had surgery last week so have spent the time recovering.
I initially wanted to capture the movement of the pendulum of this clock, but it had broken! I decided on capturing the second hand movement instead. I decided to stay away from looking at other people's work as I can imagine there's a few photos like this so wanted to learn from my own mistakes.
I learned that using a long exposure doesn't give the results I want. I expected strong "ghosts" at each second for the duration of the shutter, but it was more of a wave. 30 second exposure seemed to have the strongest ghosts around the 15 second mark!
Instead I opted for using a remote trigger, camera on 1 second exposure with it on rapid fire, shooting in bursts of 5-7 seconds.
I layered the photos in GIMP, then had to cut around the second hand of each layer, invert it, then clear the unwanted space.
The most annoying thing was I placed a black neoprene laptop sleeve underneath the clock. When photographed it showed the white specks in the neoprene really badly so had to do some heavy PP work to remove these.
Went for a tighter crop than initially intended after realising the reflection on the edge of the clock was everything in my room, including myself!