For a series of photos titled “Chronophoto,” photographer Jean-Yves Lemoigne paid tribute to old strobe photography camera tests with his own series of images that explore the movements of tennis players.
The effect was achieved entirely in-camera by photographing the athletes in a dark studio with long exposures and repeatedly flashing strobe lights. Each of the flashes records a ghostlike image of the player in the frame at a different moment in time.
These photos were captured for a special tennis issue of Black Rainbow Magazine.
Scientist and photographer Harold Eugene Edgerton of MIT captured a similar series of photos back in the 1940s and 1950s. You can find those images in the MIT Museum.
(via Photojojo)
Image credits: Photographs by Jean-Yves Lemoigne and used with permission
Started out doing photography at the age of 6 using an uncle's old 1940 kodak brownie box camera. At 15 years of age, I decided to buy my very own 1975 Praktica SLR camera. I now shoot with a Nikon D850. I do unpaid TFP and commercial paid work.