All external lighting was provided by 825 volunteer participants using hand-held electronic flash units and flashlights. Additionally, Profoto B1, B10 and B1X electronic flash equipment was used. September 29, 2018 – 8:45 pm Temperature 51F Estimated crowd of approximately 825 Cameras: Six Nikon D850 cameras Lenses:  20mm f/1.8 Exposure time: 90 seconds @ f/16 ISO […]

RIT’s signature nighttime community photo project is heading to the Canadian border for Big Shot No. 33    RIT Big Shot No. 33 is scheduled, rain or shine, for Sept. 29,  2018 Old Fort Niagara in Youngstown, N.Y. Credit: RIT Big Shot Team A historic fort with a past that spans more than 300 years will […]

As the dust settles from RIT Big Shot No 32, the question about what will the next Big Shot project  be seems to be the elephant in the room. Let us be the first to tell you, we do NOT have a subject for the next project.  🙂  We are always seeking the next great […]

For this project, the RIT Big Shot photography team used photographic technologies from the past and present to make multiple pictures of the Kodak Tower. One camera exposed a wet plate collodion plate, a process invented in the 1850s. An 11″ x 14″ plate was exposed using a 17″ lens.  Two cameras used 4″ x […]

On the left, the view before painting with light and on the right, the final result. September 18, 2016  8:18pm 69 degrees Fahrenheit Estimated crowd nearly 2,800 Camera: Nikon D810 camera Lens:  28/f1.8 mm Exposure time: 60 seconds @ f/14 ISO 50 All external lighting was provided by nearly 2800 volunteer participants using hand-held electronic […]

September 18 at 8:00PM. Be part of something special.  The 32nd edition of Big Shot will feature the Kodak Tower located in downtown Rochester, New York and needs participants. The RIT event is being produced in partnership with the Kodak, City of Rochester, Nikon, Profoto, MCC, and  M. L. Caccamise Electric Corp and Asset One […]

Big Shot Press Release:  May 6, 2016 Contact: Rich Kiley 585-475-5697 or rakuns@rit.edu Twitter: @rakiley PHOTO AVAILABLE: http://www.rit.edu/news/pics/Kodak_Tower_BigShot32.jpg Caption: RIT Big Shot No. 32 is scheduled rain or shine for Sept. 18, 2016, when the photography team will point its lenses at Kodak Tower in Rochester. Credit: RIT Big Shot Team  RIT’s nighttime community photo […]

October 3, 2015  9:09pm 54 degrees Fahrenheit Estimated crowd nearly 1,800 This is how Churchill Downs looked before “painting with light.” Cameras: Four Nikon D810 cameras Lenses:  28/f1.8 mm Exposure time: 30 seconds @ f/11 ISO 100 All external lighting was provided by nearly 1,800  volunteer participants using hand-held electronic flash units and flashlights. Additionally […]

October 3, 2015 9:00pm A free nighttime community photographic project Celebrating Three Decades of Light Painting Light painting is a unique way to photograph and allows light to be shined on a subject from multiple directions over time. Produced at night thousands of lights are shined onto the subject and using a timed exposure, the […]

Big Shot has always been about the people that come to participate. We estimate more than 10,000 people have participated in the 30 Big Shot photographs that we have produced. As we prepare for Big Shot No 31, it is exciting to know how the project has touched so many people in wonderful ways. We […]