My Algonquin Park hike with the dogs today was dreary, windy and wet. But I still had fun experimenting with the camera. (Handheld technique, no filter used and the pp was moderate.) Love the effect.


Somewhere in Algonquin















I think this one is my favourite











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Tess,

Your pictures resemble what I see after drinking too much red wine! LOL

I love them!


Bo

crown royal here

Hi Tess .. any info to share with us like shutter speed, amount of vertical pan, neutral density filter?

Barry Bridgeford
http://www.AlgonquinAdventures.com
http://www.ABRweb.ca .. Algonquin Backcountry Recreationalists - Caring for Algonquin's Backcountry
http://www.abrweb.ca/docs/ABR-LNT-L50S.pdf .. Backcountry of Algonquin Park Leave No Trace Outdoor Skills and Ethics

I had a similar image in Amsterdam a number of years ago ... come to think of it i didn't even have a camera !!!

Hey all, thanks for looking and for the comments cheers


Barry, after I took these I learned that this is a style of photography --- Impressionist Photography. I love finding new ways to express myself and my experiences & visions of nature so the fact that this is a technique and skill to learn and develop is very exciting for me. Here are just a couple of blogs that talk about impressionism photography.

http://www.dagostino.ca/impressionism.htm

http://www.evapolak.com/about.html

and a book I am going to buy

http://www.freemanpatterson.com/book5.htm



The technical stuff ...... I used a Pentax FA 50mm f/1.7 lens and a Pentax K-x camera shooting in RAW. I have a UV filter on the lens.

The first image (which I have been told is a good result) was shot ISO 100 0 ev, f/16 and shutter speed was 1/8 ... the 2nd one all the same only the shutter speed was 1/10. The third was shot at f/22, shutter speed 1/5.

For comparison, here is an ordinary shot of the same scene as the last above --- the f stop was 6.3 and the shutter speed 1/80





thanks for asking



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It's still a bit unclear to me just how those first pictures were done. As I read what has been said, it seems each picture is a single exposure and no program (like Photoshop) was used to combine multiple images. With the somewhat long exposure times I guess the result is what many photographers try to avoid by holding the camera as steady as possible. Thus movement was allowed during the exposure. The big question would be did you plan the movement, how big was it, and how would one decide what movement of the camera would be appropriate for a given subject?

Thanks for sharing your results!

Mike

Hey Mike... the funny thing is I saw an image on a photography forum that had all the birch trees blurred moving upward to the crown... and I thought it was very cool. So the next time I was out with my dogs I decided to play around with the idea of purposefully blurring the image. I set a slow shutter speed, I focused across the lake on the shore line, basically using the composition I liked, I used auto focus, then as I depressed the shutter I lifted the camera about 3 inches in a quick motion stopping at a point just above the tree line. I took a dozen shots like this, trying different f/stops, different movements (the sideways one is very cool too). Some turned out too blurry others too clear. I have found out this is only one possibility for technique. I will be trying others.



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Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity
of the human spirit.
Edward Abbey

http://www.algonquintreks.ca/



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