Deliberate Camera Movement #1

[Ozzie_Traveller]

G'day all

My local camera club has a DCM comp coming up later this year and I am playing around with wacky blurry images. It's strange to me to do this after years of careful camera work to maintain non-movement

Anyway - here's images 1 & 2 .... others to follow. I chose a slightly dim area in the house, upped the ISO to 1600 to give me some grain, have boosted contrast slightly as needed and tightened the image via Levels

1)-

exif- Panny FZ-200; 1/20s x F3,5; ISO-1600; lens at 5x zoom / 125mm FFequiv

2)-

exif- Panny FZ-200; 1/15s x F4,0; ISO-1600; lens at 5x zoom / 125mm FFequiv

As always, feedback welcome
Phil

[wigz]

The second works better for me Phil, because the subject is not recognisable, but the patterns are interesting. The first looks more like an accident.

Have you considered panning to follow a moving subject. You can get interesting effects where the subject is blurred, but less than the background.

[HansE]

What about where you blurr the whole picture except fot you point of interest? Would that be allowed ? I forget what they call the effect but I wave seen some great results I suppose it isn't dcm.
I'm with Alan on #2 I would probably enter some car or bike racing shots showing skill but not a lot of artestry.

[K1W1]

What happens when you are walking and holding the camera and accidentally push the shutter button.

[K1W1]

Phil,

I saw a guy once who made great photos by zooming during the exposure. He usually used a tripod and relatively short exposures (1/4-1/2 second type range). It might be a variation of the theme you can play with.

[Ozzie_Traveller]

Ha Ha ..... great thought ....................... I did this back in the 60s !!! with my first Pentax and a 100-300 zoom lens with rotating collar used to align the camera when in portrait mode. Rotate and zoom at the same time to get some very interesting spiral effects
Phil

[Grumpy John]

Phil,

I saw a guy once who made great photos by zooming during the exposure. He usually used a tripod and relatively short exposures (1/4-1/2 second type range). It might be a variation of the theme you can play with.

This can be a very effective method of creating Deliberate Camera Movement, often referred to as Intentional Camera Movement (ICM).

f16.0 1/5 sec ISO100



Some more Ideas

[Isac]

John's right - it is called "Intentional Camera Movement". Not being able to recognise at least some part of the image makes it difficult to comment on Phil. Others above all have valid points so you may need to get clarification as to what the club want exactly. ICM is usually focusing on a particular object or scene and moving the camera while the shutter is pressed. You can swing the camera upwards, sideways or in a circular motion. It works well with tall trees in a vertical up motion as well as close up objects for sideways motion. Zooming also works well as John's image shows but some refer this type as "Zoom Blur Effect". For the ICM I like to use my 50mm 1.8 prime lens.

This is a sideways motion. For best effects, set Aperture Priority, ½ or ¼ exposure time.
Canon EOS 7D Mark II | Shutter priority | f/1.8 | 0.25 sec | ISO 200 | 50 mm | Metering: Evaluative | 0 EV | Lens: EF50mm f/1.8 II

[Ozzie_Traveller]

Okay everyone - great ideas for me to play with
Phil