Meredith Images Loc: Stratford, CT

Love the shots -- number 2 is also my personal fave!

Another "motion" technique -- learned this from Tony Sweet during a workshop a few years ago -- is to use a fairly long exposure (1/2 sec on up depending on lighting - you have to play a bit), squeeze off the shutter and then "dip" your camera down and up (or sideways!). The pics look terrible straight out of camera (this one looked very grey), but a levels adjustment made all the colors POP!

I love having fun with our photography!

docrob Loc: Durango, Colorado

yeah because it's so easy to manipulate data in post--processing software that one easily overlooks or forgets the reason for trying to create these kinds of things in-camera. It's not about creating a cool look its about learning how to train the mind and the eye to see deeper into what is constantly occuring right in front of us. This is as much of an approach to art and image-making as it is a technique.....but yeah reducing it to a technique - to another feature on next year's newest model - is really mis-leading.

Now, that said, I use photoshop religiously in my own work but the processing serves the intent of the image not the other way around. I surely believe that the more one learns to see and observe nature the more likely they are to be able to use post processing in ways that enhance and often thats a rule of less is more. Keep playing but don't be fooled into thinking you are learning to see if all you do is work on the backend and not take your discoveries out into the field to see if you can create there what you imagine when you look at a screen.

jenny Loc: in hiding:)

Been gone from here since much earlier today...First, yes indeed i remember Freeman Patterson,he wrote some very interesting material, i may at one time have had a book of his. There was an Eleanor..(some last name???) who was a contributer to Pop Photo. magazine who used to do interesting things,exposures while moving camera,slide sandwiches etc. As for the Minolta 8000i and its fade-in/fade/out feature i know you've seen this sort of picture many times:
Black background...a person begins to step on stage..underexposed,then,overlapping in multi-exposure,more images of the same person overlapping to the final one at full exposure. Fade-out of course was the reverse.
Now if the background wasn't black, you could wrack your brain trying to figure out what exposure the first of either series should be. As for painting,thought i was beginning to do watercolor better as things...all sorts of things began to seem heavier,something happened re. an injury, i slowed down,stopped doing the yard work etc.,nevertheless it got worse. Finally unable to stand up straight and too painful to put my weight one one leg even with my slight frame. Then could hardly hold anything weighing over a lb. when it was at its worst. Finally bought a little bridge camera last
July. Better now,but not surprisingly have been doing nothing last few months but a few still life shots.No plans to upgrade with digital just to get multiple exposure again,i'm concentrating on having fun because my camera is loaded with features and can do minimal straightening or other small adjustments in-camera or with Windows Photo Gallery.
Here's another sort of technique you've probably tried and that may interest others...a rather long exposure,maybe 1/8 to 1/15 sec. people move in the scene.... We are used to seeing this in pic. of musicians on stage but it can be interesting in a park, on the street,anywhere in daylight scenes.

eye art Loc: Louisiana

Docrob, I just want you to know i'm in awe of this incredible art you have mastered !! Simply spectacular....l o v e ....
l o v e ....L O V E I T !!

A reverent bow to Sir Docrob :roll:

EyeArt

docrob Loc: Durango, Colorado

ok ok ok sheesh - next person to call me Sir gets...........

eye art Loc: Louisiana

:roll:

docrob Loc: Durango, Colorado

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RMM Loc: Suburban New York

Yes, Sir!

RMM Loc: Suburban New York

A variant. This is a photo of a charcoal sketch, handheld, time exposure, and zooming out, with a layer added with a low hard mix. Couldn't possibly take a shot like that with my Panasonic.