In my previous posts “Impressionist Photography” and “Impressionist Photography: Spring Forest Pans”, I showed pictures obtained by moving the camera up or down during a long exposure. The camera movement removes a lot of the sharp details in the photograph and one is left with an impression of the scene.
In this post I show you some pictures obtained by rotating the camera and zooming during the exposure. This produces abstract impressionist pictures, in that the subject is typically longer recognisable. I learned this technique from Bryan F Peterson, but I later found out that Freeman Patterson had been using it too, so I have no idea who first came up with the idea. By experimenting with the technique, I found it works well with a multicoloured subject.
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