The Trip Home - Passenger Seat

The Trip Home - Passenger Seat

Sue and I popped to Ely today and for a change Sue drove. This gave me a chance of the return journey to take movement photos out of the car window. 

One of my favourite books is 'Passenger Seat' By Julianne Kost and this has been a project of mine for well over 8 years. Slow shutter speed shots out of a car or train window.

I started taking photos as we left Waitrose Car Park. A bright sunny day I needed to use the built in 3 stop ND filter to cut the light down to get a shutter speed around about a half a second with the lowest ISO (160 iso) and smallest aperture (f/16)

As we travelled the sun came through the front window of the car at different angles so the variation in highlights was quite significant, more so at the start of the journey.

All of the images here were taken through the front windscreen except for the one of '3 + 1 Trees'. I decided to leave a bit of the dashboard showing to give context and a base except on a couple of pictures where the dashboard was not unfortunately on the frame.

 

Center Parcs - In-Camera Multiple Exposure

Sue and I have just got back from a few days on our own at Centre Parcs in Elveden Forest. We stayed in a very nice Forest Chalet. Where we were there I continued to practice In-Camera Multiple Exposure. Here are some results. All taken on the Canon 5D mark 4, some with In Camera Movement (ICM) incorporated as one of the exposures.

CCC Wednesday Workshop - Movement

Last Wednesday the Cambridge Camera Club met for their normal Wednesday Workshop Special Interest Group. This time Paul and Charles had us in the field playing with Intentional Camera Movement (ICM) and 'The Orton Effect' - this is where you take two photos with second photo out of focus and then blended back with the in focus image to create a dreamy effect.

An interesting evening.

The Orton Effect

The first four images show the Orton Effect (sort of). The first three of these show:-

1. The Infocus Image.
2. The out of focus image
3. The combined images 'In Camera' (I was using my Olympus OMD EM1 mkii)
4. The forth image was an image duplicated in photoshop with the the second image with Gaussian Blur

 Intensional Camera Movement (ICM)

You will have seen on my blog that I quite like playing with ICM. I don't often think about rotating the camera, I normally just go up and down or side to side. I tried a bit of both. The success rate is very low. The images here are ones that please me, I am not saying they are 'great' are a result of about 250 photos taken. I have included a non moving image in some instances.

Up and Down

 Round and Round

I then put my fish eye on. Just a slight movement in the central position can make an interesting difference.

I decided to try and blend in Photoshop a Non Movement Image with one with movement. I was playing around with the blending modes and just tried 'subtraction' and got a pleasing result. Two there, one in colour and one in monochrome. Not sure which I prefer.

ICM with Flash 

I then tried a circular movement with a burst of flash to start with.

Jedi Knight Phil 

 ....then swung is Light Sabres

Jumping

Back in the middle of January I was looking after Evelyn, not sure where Sue was, and she decided to jump off the furniture. Not wishing to miss a photographic opportunity I did not discourage her at all.