Center Parcs - Just a few more Pictures

Just to finish off this set of Blogs on Center Parcs, a few pictures. The first shows the cabin we stayed in. The trees where beautiful. I have shown one picture of a squirrel, when we arrived I noticed that there where a lot of them. I stopped counting at 20, it did not take long. They are quite cute - I know all about the fact they have pushed our native red squirrel out.

Just to finish off there is a selfi taken in this rather nice chrome light above the dining table :)

Center Parcs - Trees Intentional Camera Movement

Following on from yesterdays Blog, more Intentional Camera Movement (ICM). this time with Trees.

With the chairs yesterday I was attracted to the way the light caught the steel of the chairs. With these photos, I felt they gave a more 'painterly' effect.

Centre Parcs - Chairs Intentional Camera Movement

I have been watching some Training Videos by Doug Chinery and Velda Bailey relating to in camera multiple exposure and intentional camera movement (ICM).

I have enjoyed creating images with ICM for quite a few years. Typically things like trees with a vertical movement and beach scenes with a horizontal movement. I have also twisted the camera.

In the video Doug suggested less extreme movement and a shorter shutter speed. So after Sue and I got back from a walk in the forest I took my camera onto the patio and 'just played'

I took about 200 photos just messing around. Many where similar, but I found that there is a skill to be leaned. Little flicks, Different Shutter Speeds, Moving in and out and not just horizontal and vertical.

Subject matter - in these shots the bright steel chair legs and patterns attracted me. After these I went into the trees and did some more - maybe another blog coming on this.

Also at the post production stage, just cropping a portion of the frame created, to me, some pleasing images.

Centre Parcs - Observation Hide

Continuing with your stay at Center Parcs, Elveden Forest, Sue and I walked down to the Wildlife Observation Hide and spent a couple of hours watching and photographing the wildlife. I particularly liked the Nuthatch's

Blue Tit

Goldfinch

Muntjac Deer

Magpie

Nuthatch

Blue Tit

Muntjac

Blue Tit

Nuthatch

Robin

Blue Tit