Camera movement - 2

ICM - intentional camera movement, defined in Wikipedia as: "... a camera is moved during the exposure for a creative or artistic effect. This causes the image points to move across the recording medium, producing an apparent streaking in the resulting image."

It's not my usual technique, however over the weekend a group of togs has been challenged to try it just as an exercise. Thanks for the inspiration Seng Mah, it was fun!

I had a go in my garden and also went to Hillarys boat harbor for a quick shoot.
Finished up with images of boats and houses as I've never seen them before. Also got a picture of a lighthouse lifting off into the sky. Yet my favourite was the image of kite-surfers off a beach nearby.

Camera movement

ICM, intentional camera movement as a style of photography is gaining popularity. My experience in the field is minimal so far but it’s something I want to explore. Here are my few examples which I call successful.

The first two are taken from a moving car when travelling through Nullarbor plain. I call them “Colours of Nullarbor”. The third image is called “Night Market”. I wanted to catch the movement of the crowd.

Photography tricks

At a camera club last week we have had a hands-on workshop on bokeh effect in photos.

From Wikipedia: In photography, bokeh  (bokeh (/ˈboʊkə/ BOH-kə or /ˈboʊkeɪ/ BOH-kay; Japanese: [boke]) is the aesthetic quality of the blur produced in the out-of-focus parts of an image produced by a lens. Bokeh has been defined as "the way the lens renders out-of-focus points of light". Differences in lens aberrations and aperture shape cause some lens designs to blur the image in a way that is pleasing to the eye, while others produce blurring that is unpleasant or distracting ("good" and "bad" bokeh, respectively). Bokeh occurs for parts of the scene that lie outside the depth of field. Photographers sometimes deliberately use a shallow focus technique to create images with prominent out-of-focus regions.

Bokeh is often most visible around small background highlights, such as specular reflections and light sources, which is why it is often associated with such areas. However, bokeh is not limited to highlights; blur occurs in all out-of-focus regions of the image.