Tag: Intentional Camera Movement

Impressions of Fall 2025 – Part 4

More fall photos from Indiana in the fall of 2025.

Fall Reflections

A light breeze rippled the creek surface, giving this image an impressionist painterly appearance.

Fall Reflections 2

Fallen leaves, mostly submerged, in an Indiana creek with reflections of the trees around the creek.

Busy Fall Reflection
Tree Bone
Flaming Leaf

I considered titling this ICM image of a fall leaf ‘Maple Leaf Comet’.

Elegant Poser

At first it was just a pretty leaf lying on a mossy rock that got my attention, but the more I looked at it the more it looked like an elegant female model posing like a naturalist in an outdoor environment. (Maybe I had been wandering alone in that creek bed too long).

Autumn Contrast

Nature makes its own artistic arrangements, no need for human intervention.

Not Litter

Looking for ideas for a title, I found that fallen leaves are refered to as “leaf litter” or “tree litter”. Is it really appropriate to describe such natural beauty as “litter”? Can’t we show some respect for these fallen, natural beauties?

Creek Leaf

I set out one morning with a National Forest hiking path as a destination. When I arrived, there was a crew working at the limited area parking access. The young ranger in charge said they were just wrapping up setting posts for a kiosk and would be out of my way in a few minutes. So I drove on down the road to kill a few minutes, took a side road, stopped beside a creek and went down into the creek bed to look around. There was not much water in the creek, just a narrow stream with a few shallow puddles. There were many fallen leaves in the creek, which looked like good photographic subjects, so I returned to my vehicle, retrieved my camera and spent some time photographing those leaves.

Creek Leaves

Next up, More Creek Leaves,

Ken

Impressions of Fall 2025 – Part 1

Another year and another fall in Indiana. This year was much different than the previous few. Drought and a warm fall resulted in sporadic color change in the local trees and forests.

It was just after mid-October, when we arrived in Indiana, a time when the local forest fall foliage would normally be highly apparent. This year many trees were still fully green, a few had already changed almost completely and other were just exhibiting the seasonal change in color.

The “peak”, if it can be called that this year, came the first week in November and it was muted, compared to a “normal” year. I’m afraid this will become the “normal” in the future as climate change, which is not a “hoax”, continues its rapid advance.

Just Trees
Fall Forest Abstract 1
Fall Forest Abstract 2

For these ICM (Intentional Camera Movement) abstract images in a forest, one can include the sky or exclude it. I find that I prefer those images with the sky limited or excluded, which usually requires cropping the image in post processing.

Fall Forest Abstract 3

The direction of the light is also a factor in these image. Side light produces alternating light and dark patterns across the image, which I tend to prefer.

Red Leaves of Fall
The Straight and the Twisted
Cross Timbers
Fall Leaf Cluster
Life’s Scars
Old Friends

Stay tuned for more fall impressions,

Ken

Multiple Exposure Fall – Part 2

This is a continuation of my initial experimentation with in-camera multiple-exposure images.

Forest Shadows
Fall Abstract
Fall Dream
Leaf and Mossy Log
Leaf and Mossy Rock
Mossy Leaf
Four Leaf Rock
Mossy Red Leaf
Leaf on Mossy Log

To be continued,

Ken

Multiple Exposure Fall – Part 1

In addition to experimentation with a fisheye lens this fall, I also dabbled with in camera multiple exposure techniques, which offers many possibilities. My results were mixed, ranging from images that I liked to those that were total failures. It appears that I have much to learn about this photographic technique and I will continue working this.

I used only two images and an average of the pixels for all of these images, as that seemed to be a reasonable and simple starting point. More images can be used and there are other options of how the images are combined in camera.

In this series, I will share the images that I think worthy, even if some are not so appealing.

Before I ventured out for an intensive photo shoot, I began by making simple images around our cabin.

Perpendicular

I began with the simplest of images, such as the one above with horizontal and vertical images.

Perpendicular 2

Then I began to incorporate ICM (intentional Camera Movement) in at least one of the images.

Fall Abstract 1
Fall Abstract 2
Elephant Ear and Fall Leaf
Multiplying Leaves

Sometimes, I just moved the camera a little between shots, to get such images as Multiplying Leaves and Picasso Forest.

Picasso Forest

Another technique is to shoot the same scene with the first shot a simple, sharply focused image, then completely defocusing the image to a complete blur for the second image. I had most difficulty with this method, but still got a few good images.

Yellow Mist

The yellow and brown color around these leaves is created by the fully unfocused image of these leaves.

Dreamy Fall

More multiple exposures to follow,

Ken

 

 

 

Indiana Fall 2023, Part 26 – Abstract Images

One day at the cabin, I went out into the area around the cabin to shoot some scenes that had caught my eye due to the lighting on another day.  However, today the light was not the same and the shots of those previously interesting looking scenes were not interesting.

My stroll around the area eventually led me into a wooded area behind the cabin and I still was not getting any interesting images.  So I decided to try getting abstract images via intentional camera movement (ICM), a technique that I seldom use.

Autumn Woods Abstract 1, Indiana, November 2, 2023
Autumn Woods Abstract 2, Indiana, November 2, 2023
Autumn Woods Abstract 3, Indiana, November 2, 2023

Usually, the most interesting images can be obtained via vertical camera movement with trees as the subjects.  But I did manage to get a few interesting images by panning the camera horizontally.

Tree-Light Weave, Monochrome, Indiana, November 2, 2023
Tree-Light Weave, Original Color Version, Indiana, November 2, 2023

I think the monochrome version works best for this horizontal panning motion.

Autumn Woods Abstract 4, Indiana, November 2, 2023
Autumn Abstract, Indiana, November 2, 2023

To be continued,

Ken