I sat down with my camera after an evening walk where I forgot to take my tripod along. It was getting too dark to take hand held pictures. I was about to put my camera in the car when I remembered Alan's work; so I decided to do some experimentation with intentional camera movement at night. I'll post a few. Thanks, Alan, for the inspiration.
It's great to hear your voice Jennifer, thanks for posting. So in a sense this the result of unintentional Intentional Camera Movement :-)
I do like the sense of mystery this image evokes, and the stark color contrast. I'd be interested to hear how you feel about your images yourself - do they capture what you envisioned, are you pleased with the results?
You should be happy with your work, they all evoke that same sense of mystery and contrast.
I'm so glad that I provided some inspiration for these. One of the goals for the group is to help each other explore new possibilities and grow as artists.
BTW - if posting multiple images that have a common theme you can add to a single post so they can be reviewed as a set.
I strongly agree with Alan's comments.
Jennifer, your experiments are lots of fun to see and I very much hope you will continue to 'forget' your tripod and share with us what you discover.
Thanks for sharing!
The other guys have said it all for me, Jennifer! Especially Julian's point that your experiments are fun to see - that's much of the point of sharing images here, isn't it? Still, it requires courage to post, and I realise I have been timid and posted virtually nothing experimental myself - so I'd better. But "forget" my tripod - NEVER!!! ;-)
I think as Alan says you could consider posting a series together. This one is the strongest of the three you've posted. This image IS very mysterious in atmosphere. The slightly ?eerie yellow "makes" all of them, as it doesn't seem to fit with the dark, foreboding upper part. But then I think of sulphurous yellows, and hell... you've got my imagination going! Didn't know I had one. Well done. Keep at it!
Thank you for the encouragement; I appreciate it ... we were sitting in an empty parking lot along a local river at night under a street light. The initial attempts were awful; but since I was going to be there for awhile, I figured I'd start being more deliberate with shutter time and moments of movement/pauses during the shutter time and including areas of color/light (the green/yellow is from the street light shining on the grass below). The process is fascinating and exciting because it opens a whole new set of ideas upon ideas to try - you do one thing then you wonder to yourself, "what will happen if I do this now?" which leads to more wondering and trying. The biggest issue is having to think of exposure, light, color, etc in almost the opposite way of how I've studied for portraits/landscapes/etc up until this point. Alan, your "myguides" section of your website is fantastic!(https://www.alanbrownphotography.com). I'm really enjoying reading a little at a time then trying it out. I went out yesterday during the day to a shadowy area to do some spring trees blossoming - yellows, whites, and pinks. Photoshop is a big help because if you get too bright, the exposure can be altered in post. How much post do you all apply? I do enjoy the post with this type of photography because it feels like I actually have artistic talent. Lol! Hope you are all enjoying spring in your parts of the world!
Love the way you're revelling in this, Jennifer! Great to hear your enthusiasm. It's infectious.