Move your camera for creative abstracts

Jason Parnell-Brookes shows how to capture motion blur with intentional camera movement, using a tripod ball-head and a slow shutter speed

The mission • Capture scenes with intentional camera movement motion blur Time • One hour Skill level • Beginner• Intermediate• Advanced Kit needed • Tripod• Tripod ball-head The technique of intentional camera movement, or ICM, is one that employs a long shutter speed while moving the camera during exposure, in order to introduce motion blur intentionally. This normally works best when moving in just one direction, and that makes a three-way head (aka pan-and-tilt heads) the obvious choice of tripod head to use. But we’re using a ball-head for this project. This technique employs a long shutter speed while moving the camera during exposure It sounds like we’ve gone mad, after all, three-way tripod heads make this so much easier; all you have to do is unlock one of the three directional movement controls and you can pan or tilt…

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N-photo: The Nikon (Digital) - 1 Issue, March 2019

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