Intentional Camera Movement.

Adrian.Sadlier

dinneenp

here's a few of mine:
.3 second shutter speed and shock the camera around a bit.
50mm (nifty fifty)
ISO 200
It was hard to get a 'standard' good shot (background distractions etc) so I thought I'd try something different.




'Camera throw' which looks like Cocteau Twins Heaven Or Las Vegas album cover:




Run, Robbie, Run



Cycling Race, heavily edited (obviously)

OldGoat

Really like the Robbie one. Almost makes football look interesting.

thatsnotmyname

alb

An accidental one that made me wonder about doing this intentionally a while back



I started a thread somewhat related to this here

OldGoat

Did you follow up and take any with intentional movement?

Cakes.

Was in Dublin yesterday and had a go at this.

ellieswellies

I completely misread the title as 'international camera movement'..oops!
This isn't intentional, but my winder jams every now and again

AnCatDubh

What are people finding best in terms of technique (I appreciate with these in particular, technique will be subjective here).

I don't think i've yet seen images quite of a like to Chris Friel or Eva Polak yet - some nice stuff but not like that. The linked article on Chris Friel makes reference to shooting 400 in a day with only a few keepers. hmnnnnnnnnn...... luck or technique involved here?

Anyone using ND filters to get their long exposures? - though much of what's been posted look like they are low light anyways

I've experimented a little over the last day or two - mostly dross results so i'm still on an uphill struggle for now.

OldGoat

I've started to use ND's when necessary - trying to get an OK exposure at a shutter speed of between 1/10 to 1/30 of a second. Before I picked those up I was limited to dawn and dusk shooting. I like getting the shot SOOC as best I can with as little PP as possible - mostly just levels and occasionally pushing the saturation.

Most of what I shoot is urban rather then rural so I seldom get the pretty tree and flower shots. I look out for colour and shape, repeating patterns are good. I've found that the images I like most are ones of shop windows and the reflections cast in them.

I tend to put two different motions into the camera, a transverse swing across the subject but at the same time rotating the camera to keep the lens (kinda) pointed at an object of interest. All of this as I'm walking past so thats a third movment I guess. And if the object of interest is a reflection of someone else walking then thats a fourth movment to work with - at which point the return hit rate plummets.

My hit rate is way better then a few in 400 but then again I'm not as fussy nor shooting to the quality that Chris does.

superflyninja

Taken on a 65B

dinneenp

At a gig in the Galway Arts Festival with a standard/crappy compact. Realized I couldn't get any good band photos so tried this instead

phog

Not really camera movement, rather changing the zoom in a long exposure photo.

stabo

Nightflight @ Button factory. by Jim Stapleton, on Flickr

af_thefragile

I think I overdid it...............

the_tractor

Camera round the neck, on timer, spin with child, then repeat until you get a keeper, or you vomit. :-)

kelly1

OldGoat

Robinwood

@DaireQuinlan......... What exactly is in the picture which you have pasted above ?

DaireQuinlan

Robinwood wrote: »

@DaireQuinlan......... What exactly is in the picture which you have pasted above ?

The whole glorious panoply of human experience.

OldGoat

I find the freedom from having to be precise is cathartic.

Connolly station, platform 4.

Adrian.Sadlier

I like the combination of a slow(ish) pan and a subject that doesn't follow a smooth, level path

alb

I'm so glad this thread got bumped. I have an accidental waterfall photo earlier in this thread, where my tripod slipped during the shot but this is something I never followed up on trying intentionally. Also imho, panning and changing zoom during a shot are as much intentional camera movement as anything else. One just means that something is moving in the same direction as the camera, the other control and restricts the direction of the movement, but it's still intentional movement.

dakar

Mullaghmore

dakar

Sineadw

dakar

N11

meenaghans

5 sec exposure


small 5sec by meenaghans, on Flickr

OldGoat

From Wednesdays photowalk.

Bicycle.

Silva360

Sorry to resurrect a very old thread. I really like this type of photography, but find it incredibly difficult to do myself. I was just wondering if folk still make this kind of work? Any good or bad practices learned along the way??

I note that Chris Friel was mentioned a few times. He's just published a book of some of his work.

Here's a few of my own attempts....

dinneenp

They're 3 very good shots I think; the darkness and eeriness in the first one make it.

I like abstract a lot and intentional camera movement is an effective way to make an abstract photo. I find that colourful scenes work well and playing around in PP can enhance them nicely. Here's some of mine:

1.
Surfing On Sine Waves- Vinyl abstract by Patrick Dinneen, on Flickr

2.
rubbish_pile_abstract by Patrick Dinneen, on Flickr

3.
Abstract Fire in the Sky by Patrick Dinneen, on Flickr

4.
Nightmare by Patrick Dinneen, on Flickr

5.
Ireland football abstract by Patrick Dinneen, on Flickr