Critique Welcomed B-dock on Acid

[Brian Moore]

An attempt at ICM (Intentional Camera Movement).

Not sure quite yet how I feel about ICM. Some images I've seen demonstrate lovely, wave-like flows of color. I find it's easy to move your camera around during a low speed exposure, but quite another matter to produce a quality image.

Sigma DP1M.

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Well, I’d regard that as a quality image all day long. Beautiful The vertical lines and their reflections give a sense of stability within the overall flow, making it easier to take in. Some such images are just a dizzying wash of colour, tiresome to look at. No problem here. Full marks!

 

[Brian Moore]

The vertical lines and their reflections give a sense of stability within the overall flow

Thanks a lot, Rob. Without those vertical lines I would never have posted this picture. I knew I liked them but you've given me the reason: stability.

 

[Wes Hall]

Fond of the colours here Brian, the peach and steel like water helps ground the movement sweeps (and I'm a sucker for these tones). Was the movement and shot hand held? I've wondered how it would be using a smooth panning tripod to work ICM shots...

 

[Brian Moore]

Fond of the colours here Brian, the peach and steel like water helps ground the movement sweeps (and I'm a sucker for these tones). Was the movement and shot hand held? I've wondered how it would be using a smooth panning tripod to work ICM shots...

Thanks a lot, Wes. Yeah, hand held. To be honest I haven’t yet come to terms with ICM. Some stuff I see is really cool, especially if it seems to conjure Impressionist paintings. Other stuff is just like OOF pictures or pictures that were hand-held at too low a shutter speed. I shot about 20 or so ICM images last week. I binned every one of them. It’s a challenging genre to get right, but ultimately much of it seems gimmicky to me. Thanks again, Wes.

 

[Wes Hall]

Thanks a lot, Wes. Yeah, hand held. To be honest I haven’t yet come to terms with ICM. Some stuff I see is really cool, especially if it seems to conjure Impressionist paintings. Other stuff is just like OOF pictures or pictures that were hand-held at too low a shutter speed. I shot about 20 or so ICM images last week. I binned every one of them. It’s a challenging genre to get right, but ultimately much of it seems gimmicky to me. Thanks again, Wes.

It feels akin to abstract art as a genre in painting; seems obvious how you do, but challenging to 'feel' out the technique. I'm experiencing this to a lesser extent with IR photography.

Do you have the option to shoot from a moving vehicle? I wonder what this could do for ICM.

 

[Stevenson Gawen]

shoot from a moving vehicle?

You can get an interesting effect with this, if you pick a subject at a moderate distance and pan to keep stationary in frame, everything behind it blurs one way and everything in front blurs the other way. Don't think I ever got a worthwhile shot though...

 

[Brian Moore]

I’ve shot from a moving vehicle many times. Sometimes I’ve made interesting images. (Interesting to me at least.)