ROBERT WEINGARTEN
6:30 AM Series

May 3 through June 4, 2005

Robert Weingarten’s 6:30 a.m. series is the product of a long term project completed within strict procedural parameters. Shooting from a single viewpoint, looking southeast over Santa Monica Bay in Los Angeles, Weingarten photographed the view from his bedroom porch over the course of one year beginning on January 1 and ending on December 31 of 2003. Each photograph in the series was taken with the camera in the exact same position at the exact same time of day – 6:30 a.m. He used a camera that would make an image 2 1⁄4 inches square, a 350 mm telephoto lens, and slow speed, fine resolution, color saturated transparency film. All the film used was bought at the start of the project from the same production batch, and was stored at the same temperature and humidity for its duration. All exposures were made with the lens focused on infinity and at the aperture speed of f/22. The only variable elements allowed into the process were the shutter speed of the lens, which was adjusted according to the quantity and quality of light available each morning, and natural changes in the atmosphere. The photographs were printed on acid free Somerset Velvet Fine Art Enhanced Matte Cotton Rag paper from digital files created directly from Weingarten’s transparencies. The digital images were then pigment printed on an Epson Stylus Pro 9600 printer, using Epson Ultrachrome pigment ink.  

6:30am Series 04/13/03 Malibu, California #34 2003, Pigment Print
Image: 30 x 30 inches
Sheet:  34 x 34 inches
Edition of 10

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