Quod oculus meus videt

By GrahamColling

Garden Abstract

Digital cameras have opened up an incredible opportunity to experiment without it costing money and the ability to review what you've taken straight away helps to refine that experimentation as and when you are doing it.  

I was watching a YouTube video from OnLandscape of an in the field tutorial by Doug Chinnery today.  While his body of work is very impressive, he is making a name for himself in the field of ICM (in camera movement).  He was extolling these virtues and pointing out that this type of photography has grown more and more now that we use digital cameras.  While multiple exposure has been around from the film days, anyone experimenting in these areas had to be meticulous in their record keeping so that when the prints came back from d&p, the photographer could assess the results and know how to change things for future attempts.

His view is that there is still an element of trial and error and he will take hundreds of shots, reviewing and adapting his technique as he went.  There was no such thing as the correct formula for success.  He admitted that the majority of his images were discarded, but within them were images that with the correct post processing he could create a pleasing composition.

I headed into the garden to experiment, combining ICM with multiple exposure to create what is evidently very colourful, though I'm not sure it would win any prizes!

It actually rained today!  Even the Met Office here in the UK are forecasting a good summer!  Here's hoping.

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