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I made this blurs during a trip last weekend to Rocky Mountain National Park. I am quite taken by William Neil’s and Alan Briot’s blur work, so when the elk stopped doing interesting things, I took a few moments to make these images. Note that the blur effect is created entirely in camera, not with software post-processing. I really like the play of the light on the aspen boles in the first image and the great sense of texture. In a perfect world perhaps the background would be less busy. As always, click on an image for a slideshow/larger version. More elk photos (and some Bosque images) shortly. When I migrated my old site over to the current one, I left out a number of photos that do not represent my best work. This mallard image didn’t make the cut. My brother likes this one enough, however, to complain that he could no longer find it. By request (and after more carefully evaluating the image) I’ve added it back to the bird portfolio. I have added many additional images to the Night Blurs collection. Enjoy! This post on The Luminious Landscape is further proof that lanscape blur images are officially trendy. Even Alan Briot is shooting them! (Not that I’m a critic. I really like a couple of Alan’s images, including the first one). Here are a couple of “moving car” blurs that I shot tonight on my way home from work. I wasn’t driving . . .
Both of these images are eight second exposures at f/6.3, ISO 80. If you like these, there are many more in my Night Blur Collection.
I continue to wade through the images from my trip to Bosque Del Apache. I’m making progress . . . slowly. In the meantime, here are two of my favorite “blur” images from the trip. The “Sandhill Calligraphy” image was fairly easy to make, though I was fortunate to capture both birds at the same point in their wing beat. The 2nd image, a pan blur, was much, much more difficult. I made dozens of images before I captured one with a pleasing background and where the bird’s eye is sharp.
Intentionally blurred images certain are in vogue this year. Master landscape photographer Alain Briot has posted a lovely portfolio of intentionally blurred images on his website. Though the technique is largely the same, it is interesting to note just how different Alain’s images are from William Neil’s images that I blogged about previously. While I am on the subject of Alain Briot, I must say just how depressing (and motivating) it is to view his work (and to read his essays). Every time I think I’m getting better at photography, I view his portfolios or read his essays on the Luminious Landscape and realize just how much further I can progress as a photographer. Not to copy Briot’s images or his style, but rather to have the technical control and aesthetic sense to make images that reflect my style and vison as effectively as he does. I am simply stunned by William Neil’s “Impressions of Light” portfolio, a series of beautifully impressionistic images that Neil creates by moving the camera during a long exposure. (Outdoor Photographer article here.) You owe it to yourself to take a look. (If you don’t have time to browse the whole collection, here’s a favorite example from Neil’s Photo Blog.) The textures, colors, and sense of space in these images are fantastic. I am sufficiently impressed by the Impressions of Light to try my own hand at images in that style, though hopefully different enough from Neil’s to move beyond mere imitation. Here are a couple of my initial efforts, all shot from my office window. (Here we come to an important difference between Neil and me. He spends his days photographing in Yosemite. I spend mine in a skyscraper looking out the window. Go figure.) This is a motion blur of an interesting banded cloud formation. The light turquoise color of the sky was striking, and I tried to make it the focal point of the image: Here is a blur of lower downtown Denver. I tried to leave just enough detail for the viewer to understand that this is an image of an urban landscape, though the image is primarily about texture and color. You can see more of my initial attempts at “urban blur” images here. |
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