I was told recently that my photographic style was neat, straight and classic. Well that made me sit up. Actually it made me get off my backside and into the forest to see if I could do something less neat, more wobbly and completely unclassic. Below is the result.
Birch trees in Epping Forest
I deliberately left the tripod behind. Closed the aperture down, let the shutter speed go to 8 secs plus, and then let the camera wobble. It’s meant to be impressionistic. Pictorial. Un-photographic. Actually I quite like it!
Birch copse
It’s all a bit hit and miss. But fun! Makes a change from trying to get front to back sharpness and perfect exposure for land plus sky… I shall definitely take more images like this.
Dancing trees
Wonder if anyone else likes these, or whether they just look like shaky camera technique. Let me know… Anyway, back to the classic style for the next post no doubt!
December 30th, 2013 at 1:22 pm
Love it – captures the movement of trees, even when they appear to stand still. I always find a drop of the hard stuff helps with this kind of focus
December 30th, 2013 at 3:35 pm
Happy New Year, Tom …..cool pictures
January 1st, 2014 at 6:44 pm
Hi Tom, please can you sign me up for your blog. I loved your wobbly pictures. I hope you all had a great Christmas and Steve and I wish you all a happy and healthy new year.
Love to you all, Sally
January 2nd, 2014 at 6:42 pm
I like them – ‘Impressionistic’ is right, tres artistic! And I think trees good subject-matter, recognisably trees, but still very expressive. Not just trees, but ‘tree-ness’. Man.
January 2nd, 2014 at 11:08 pm
Thx Kevin. Appreciate it! How are you? HNY, and when are we going to the Turner exhibition? TP
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January 3rd, 2014 at 9:07 am
Dear Tom, I like these pictures very much.I’m looking forward to seeing some more. As ever AJP
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