I usually take my camera with me on my longer walks. You never know what you might see or come across. The problem is, I’ve walked these same routes many, many times and have taken the same pictures many, many times. On this walk around Deer Lake in Burnaby, I stopped on a whim to take a few ICM shots. I didn’t put much time or thought into them, it was just something a bit different. Quick and dirty.
My interest in photography is fairly conventional. I don’t tend to be drawn to heavily altered and processed photographs. I just needed to try something new with the familiar scenery.
Intentional Camera Movement can produce some very interesting images, but it is always an experiment, adjusting movement, camera settings, and subject matter to find a final image that stands out. You’re never certain of the shot you’re taking, you have to try it, then look at it, make adjustments, and try again. And yes, certain techniques and settings work best for this. But I’ve only ever experimented with this briefly once a long time ago and I haven’t put much thought into it since.
I stuck to the straight(ish) up and down quick movement. I’ll try some other movements, like rotations and zooming, with this technique at some point.
I wasn’t happy with any of the original shots – until I started playing around in Lightroom and created some interesting results. I wish I could say there was some finely-tuned technique that got me here but, honestly, it was just random tweaking. Here are a few of them. Nothing spectacular, just an interesting experiment. I also quickly threw them into a video (it was a quiet afternoon at home).
Cheers
Gerald
Here’s a little video: