Matt Molloy- art history

My artist is Matt Molloy is a Canadian photographer who uses timelapes and stacks the 100s of pictures on top of each other then blends them together to create breath taking effects on the sky. The clouds look a lot like paintbrush smears on the sky. The number of pictures he uses depends on how far or slow the sky is moving. He has a few tutorials on youtube which explain this effect and how he archives this.

Smoke Stack - Matt Molloy

This is a picture of a view with a chimney stack with multiple shots taken over a certain time period.
Molloy uses a camera to take pictures with a device that can take time lapses. The colours used in this picture as somewhat dull. The majority of his other pictures are taken of the sun setting so that all the colours of the red , yellows and blues are in his pictures but not this one. I think this is due to how this is a picture of a power plant and the lack of colour could show that it's polluting and unnatural.
Molloy focused the picture on the chimney stack which brings your attention to the smoke bellowing out of it. Due to the time stack he has used it simulates motion of the smoke coming out of the chimney. This gives it an animated style look. The picture is taken as a landscape. This makes the picture also seam like a view which has been ruined by this chimney stack.
The picture has also got motion in the sky and on the trees. This is shown by some blur and motion in the trees. The sky is in streaks which give the sky motion, this also gives a passage of time.

After burn - Matt Molloy

This next picture is called after burn. This is because to looks like fire in the sky with all the colours of the setting sun. This is what a lot of Molloys pictures look like. This again uses time stacks and has a lot more pictures in than the first or there was a larger interval between each picture. It shows the passage of time in the sun set and displays how all the colours can come out of the sun set.
This shows how the picture is natural, there is no man made element to this picture unlike the previous picture. It shows how beautiful the simple things are, like the setting sun.
What I also like about the picture is how the sky has also been reflected in the water at the bottom of the picture and the land around has been under exposed to get very little detail in. This shows how the artist wanted to emphasise the sky and the water with the blended colours through the picture.

This picture is almost surreal and unnatural but natural at the same time due to how in reality you won't see the colours at the same time but with a camera you can. This is what I hope to achieve my taking pictures using the time stacks. I will take the time staking element and start experimenting with it to produce more work.