If you’re looking for a new, creative way to shoot landscapes, this may be the video for you. Tom Woods' video might inspire you to capture your own motion-blur seascapes or use this technique for another creative landscape scene.
I really like abstract art and enjoy learning new ways to create interesting images, so when I came across this video, I was excited to go to the beach and experiment. This technique has been around for a while, but Woods gives you eight key tips to get the best images. I find the final images look so cool, and depending on what time you create them—from dusk to sunset to twilight—you get different dominant colors.
I followed Woods’ tips myself, and I ended up with really colorful, abstract art pieces. Woods emphasizes using a tripod to get straight lines and adjusting aperture speed depending on how blurry you want the lines and colors to look. I found that the speed at which you pan also plays a role in the look of the images.
These colorful images make great art pieces for your home or to sell to customers. They look like a painted canvas and take way less time to create.
"If you’re looking for a new, creative way to shoot"
This is hardly new. Hiroshi Sugimoto made a big splash with long exposures with his "Seascapes" book in 1995 and "Theaters" in 2006.
"New" and "creative" are almost always a function of imagination, rarely technique.