ICM (intentional camera movment)

[Rand47]

I've been admiring Michael Orton's work in this area, and have been doing some exploring of my own.

Ernst Hass' "The Creation" was a book that fired my rocket many years ago.

ND filter + polarizer + varying movement amount and direction based on composition:

[Eric Myrvaagnes]

Nice series. JohnR also does similar work and posts frequently on LuLa.

[Paulo Bizarro]

I find the poles in #s 1 and 3 distracting, kind of interfering with the flow of the movement. To me, #2 is very good, more lean, and the greens lift it a lot.

[Eric Myrvaagnes]

I kind of like the poles in #3. The two fat poles in front seem to balance out the skinny poles running toward the back. This makes for an interesting composition.

[Rand47]

Thanks for the comments.  I found the verticals interesting and as contributing to the compositions.  In fact, as I sorted through the day's shoot, they jumped out at me as more visually interesting than many of the others.  Just goes to show that one person's visual interest can easily be a distraction for someone else.  In my own circle of people who are accustomed to my more conventional work, the whole concept of ICM is receiving quite polarized reactions;  "I love it," or "not my favorite" (which is code for "I hate it").  I'm having fun exploring and getting the technique down to something more than pure luck.  Where it ends up, who knows.  Thanks again . . .

Rand