Abstracts with ICM (intentional camera movement)

[DanK]

I normally do highly realistic, very sharply focused images, a lot with focus stacking, so this is completely new to me. Yesterday evening I went with a group to the Arnold Arboretum in Boston to experiment with ICM (intentional camera movement), where you use a long exposure and deliberately move the camera to create abstracts. These three were done with an ND 8 to allow me exposures of 0.6 to 1.6 seconds.

C&C particularly welcome, as these are from the first batch, and I have never tried anything like this before.

[Shadowman]

Nice concept.

[rachel]

Ooh, I like those. If you don't mind I think I'm going to pinch the idea and play with it myself.....

[DanK]

Ooh, I like those. If you don't mind I think I'm going to pinch the idea and play with it myself.....

Thanks, and of course. Here is a link that explains it. It helps to start moving the camera before tripping the shutter. An ND filter gives you more leeway to slow down the shutter. I used an ND 8 (also known as an ND 0.9 or 103), which is 3 stops, in late afternoon sun. No harm in shutting the aperture all the way, since diffraction doesn't matter when the image will be blurred anyway.

[Barbara Ponder]

Interesting concept #3 really works for me.

[bnnrcn]

Very nice shots Dan

[IzzieK]

Dan...I think this is pretty much what Daisy Mae was doing before she disappeared for quite sometime, and she uses it on fabric printing or something similar...I like the last one better...still have the blur but still recognizable.