ICM (intentional camera movement) photography
Quote from JBP on July 20, 2022, 2:23 pmThank you! Honestly I am surprised by your feedback. I was trying to get those beautiful landscape ICM shots you do and failed utterly, so literally went to a dark corner in the field to do this in sadness. haha Then I went home and did the same in another dark corner at a curtain.
<After-school special voice> That's the beauty of sharing! We all have different strengths!
LOL @ the sad corner of the field. But it turned out great!
Also, to be totally transparentā¦ I haven't posted the 100s of shots I threw away. Hundreds and hundreds. I usually take 50+ ICM images each time I try it. Most of them look lackluster at best, at worstā¦ wellā¦ see attached for one that makes me feel physically ill to look at. (I aggressively deleted most of the bad ones but kept this one for its unique awfulness!)
I just take the shot, hold it very briefly to get a defined image, then spin it in one direction until the exposure is over (at most a 180 degree spin). I'm holding it with both hands like normal, out in front of me as if I were using live view. I can try it again and see if I'm missing anything in my description, or if I'm even able to do it again.
Oh, that's a cool technique, to hold it briefly still then rotate. What kind of shutter speed are you using?
Even the shower curtain looks nifty.
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Quote from ahoyhere on July 20, 2022, 9:11 pmQuote from JBP on July 20, 2022, 2:23 pmThank you! Honestly I am surprised by your feedback. I was trying to get those beautiful landscape ICM shots you do and failed utterly, so literally went to a dark corner in the field to do this in sadness. haha Then I went home and did the same in another dark corner at a curtain.
<After-school special voice> That's the beauty of sharing! We all have different strengths!
LOL @ the sad corner of the field. But it turned out great!
Also, to be totally transparentā¦ I haven't posted the 100s of shots I threw away. Hundreds and hundreds. I usually take 50+ ICM images each time I try it. Most of them look lackluster at best, at worstā¦ wellā¦ see attached for one that makes me feel physically ill to look at. (I aggressively deleted most of the bad ones but kept this one for its unique awfulness!)
I just take the shot, hold it very briefly to get a defined image, then spin it in one direction until the exposure is over (at most a 180 degree spin). I'm holding it with both hands like normal, out in front of me as if I were using live view. I can try it again and see if I'm missing anything in my description, or if I'm even able to do it again.
Oh, that's a cool technique, to hold it briefly still then rotate. What kind of shutter speed are you using?
Even the shower curtain looks nifty.
Thank you! Yes, I need to keep trying and taking more shots. I had trouble getting the shutter speed slow enough (the woods was 1/2s and the other one was 0.7s) so I need to dig up that ND filter next time.
Is it awful, though? I quite like it! I like that it looks like an ICM photo in two stripes across the frame, and then a normal photo in the other two. Cool š
Quote from JBP on July 20, 2022, 10:50 pm
Thank you! Yes, I need to keep trying and taking more shots. I had trouble getting the shutter speed slow enough (the woods was 1/2s and the other one was 0.7s) so I need to dig up that ND filter next time.
I need to buy one myself! Maybe I should get the Sandmarc one that @james-warner-b reviewed. James, are you still using yours?
Is it awful, though? I quite like it! I like that it looks like an ICM photo in two stripes across the frame, and then a normal photo in the other two. Cool
Guess we really are all different! It literally makes me feel motion sick, haha.
I tried your circle technique today, it's quite tricky. Nothing really turned out circle-like even when I managed to make the whole circle!
Did have a happy little accident tho:
And I like how this one turned out:
Out of literally 150 shots. š There are just a couple others I like. ICM is a messy art!
Quote from ahoyhere on July 22, 2022, 3:49 amQuote from JBP on July 20, 2022, 10:50 pmThank you! Yes, I need to keep trying and taking more shots. I had trouble getting the shutter speed slow enough (the woods was 1/2s and the other one was 0.7s) so I need to dig up that ND filter next time.
I need to buy one myself! Maybe I should get the Sandmarc one that @james-warner-b reviewed. James, are you still using yours?
Is it awful, though? I quite like it! I like that it looks like an ICM photo in two stripes across the frame, and then a normal photo in the other two. Cool
Guess we really are all different! It literally makes me feel motion sick, haha.
I tried your circle technique today, it's quite tricky. Nothing really turned out circle-like even when I managed to make the whole circle!
Did have a happy little accident tho:
And I like how this one turned out:
Out of literally 150 shots.
There are just a couple others I like. ICM is a messy art!
Wow, great results! Totally worth the effort, I would say. That first one is so magical looking. It reminds me of a plasma plume from the sun. So cool. š
I gave it another shot today. I got a few that at least look artistic and not...I dunno, like I threw the camera with the shutter open. š
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Quote from JBP on July 23, 2022, 1:54 amI gave it another shot today. I got a few that at least look artistic and not...I dunno, like I threw the camera with the shutter open.
Yesssssss I love where you're going with this!
This one is my favorite.
I took a quick whack with ACR "Optics" Distortion if I could straighten the curve a bit to get you more the effect you said you liked from my sunsetsā¦ it sorta worked. A little more finesse definitely could deliver a set of pretty straight lines!
It's looking pretty magical.
My straight lines were SOOC but took 50+ shots to get, after doing it for weeks! Although it was much easier to get straight lines out of the Olympus E-400, for some weird reason, and much harder/nigh impossible to get it to do wavey superposition. I really think it may vary per camera/shutter setup.
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Quote from ahoyhere on July 23, 2022, 11:04 pmQuote from JBP on July 23, 2022, 1:54 amI gave it another shot today. I got a few that at least look artistic and not...I dunno, like I threw the camera with the shutter open.
Yesssssss I love where you're going with this!
This one is my favorite.
I took a quick whack with ACR "Optics" Distortion if I could straighten the curve a bit to get you more the effect you said you liked from my sunsetsā¦ it sorta worked. A little more finesse definitely could deliver a set of pretty straight lines!
It's looking pretty magical.
My straight lines were SOOC but took 50+ shots to get, after doing it for weeks! Although it was much easier to get straight lines out of the Olympus E-400, for some weird reason, and much harder/nigh impossible to get it to do wavey superposition. I really think it may vary per camera/shutter setup.
Thank you! I didn't think of adjusting the distortion... that's something I bet I could do in Lightroom even.
Found one that I find pretty interesting!
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Quote from Beau Carpenter on July 25, 2022, 1:16 amFound one that I find pretty interesting!
I'd be thrilled with that shot, excellent!
Quote from Beau Carpenter on July 25, 2022, 1:16 amFound one that I find pretty interesting!
Really beautiful, @beau-carpenter.
The contrast of the perfectly straight trunk with all the motion around the leaves is fabulous!
