Pine tree branch in the snow
This month's Exploring with a Camera exercise is about
Artistic blur!
This is much more difficult than I thought!
The above effect was created by using a long shutter-speed with a small aperture.
I also put the camera on manual mode
to create the amount of blur I wanted.
I sometimes used 'intentional camera movement'
using the direction in which I found gave
the most harmonious effect.
All the photos were taken with a 50mm f/1.4 lens.
Could this be a gale force wind in a blizzard?
You can tell in which direction I was moving my camera for this composition.
If you look carefully, you can see the benches and a park lamp.
These first shots were taken in my local park this morning
and it was cold work, so I went inside to warm up
before a second outing.
How about blurring up a picture
I have in my home?
Then into the bedroom
to move across the turquoise duvet cover
and the bed spread.
Into the office
to play with the coloured files!
A Mother-of-pearl shell
in my living-room.
After warming up at home with a hot drink,
I returned to the park to capture this lamp.
Then I noticed some people going shopping with their umbrellas
to protect themselves from the still falling snow.
I like this one of the lady dashing along
down the hill to the shops with her
shopping caddie.
And how about this one with her shopping bag
and cheerful yellow umbrella
creating a scene reminiscent of Impressionist painters?
Kat Sloma
from kateyestudio
has organized this very interesting
and instructive exercise in photography.
Check out her site and the work of others here:
