{"id":1022,"date":"2017-02-07T21:34:30","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T21:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/?p=1022"},"modified":"2020-03-23T11:22:07","modified_gmt":"2020-03-23T11:22:07","slug":"urban-impressionism-edinburgh-tour-buses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/urban-impressionism-edinburgh-tour-buses\/","title":{"rendered":"Urban Impressionism: Edinburgh Tour Buses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The use of camera movement and\/or zooming during a long exposure is a technique I learned from one of my photographic heroes, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bryanfpeterson.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bryan Peterson<\/a>. It takes experimentation to figure out which photographic subjects are likely to produce interesting images.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1023\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1023\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1023\" src=\"http:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Bus-Impressionism-Philippe-Monthoux-Edinburgh-Urban-1-800x536.jpg\" alt=\"Edinburgh tour bus, impressionist photography using zooming and camera rotation\" width=\"800\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Bus-Impressionism-Philippe-Monthoux-Edinburgh-Urban-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Bus-Impressionism-Philippe-Monthoux-Edinburgh-Urban-1-768x515.jpg 768w, https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Bus-Impressionism-Philippe-Monthoux-Edinburgh-Urban-1-624x418.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1023\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I really like this old style tour bus and I was delighted I could capture an impressions picture of this wonderful subject.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>So a while back, I decided to try out this technique in an urban setting, namely central Edinburgh. I was quickly intrigued by the many colourful tour buses going by.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1024\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1024\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1024\" src=\"http:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Bus-Impressionism-Philippe-Monthoux-Edinburgh-Urban-2-800x536.jpg\" alt=\"Edinburgh tour bus, impressionist photography using zooming and camera rotation\" width=\"800\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Bus-Impressionism-Philippe-Monthoux-Edinburgh-Urban-2.jpg 800w, https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Bus-Impressionism-Philippe-Monthoux-Edinburgh-Urban-2-768x515.jpg 768w, https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Bus-Impressionism-Philippe-Monthoux-Edinburgh-Urban-2-624x418.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1024\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I love the colour red as it is an attention grabber in photographs.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The images in this post were taken with an exposure of 1\/8s, turning the camera while holding the zoom ring. It takes quite a bit of practice, and I had to try my luck on a lot of passing cars and buses to get the three images you see here. I really look forward to trying this technique on other urban photography subjects.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1025\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1025\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1025\" src=\"http:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Bus-Impressionism-Philippe-Monthoux-Edinburgh-Urban-3-800x536.jpg\" alt=\"Edinburgh tour bus, impressionist photography using zooming and camera rotation\" width=\"800\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Bus-Impressionism-Philippe-Monthoux-Edinburgh-Urban-3.jpg 800w, https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Bus-Impressionism-Philippe-Monthoux-Edinburgh-Urban-3-768x515.jpg 768w, https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Bus-Impressionism-Philippe-Monthoux-Edinburgh-Urban-3-624x418.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1025\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This tour bus seemed to go by at a higher frequency than the others, and I therefore had multiple attempts at a &#8220;bus impression&#8221;.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The use of camera movement and\/or zooming during a long exposure is a technique I learned from one of my&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1025,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,42,133,12,43,65],"tags":[290,213,188,81,80,291,292,7,67,120],"class_list":["post-1022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-edinburgh","category-experimentation","category-impressionism-2","category-personal-work","category-photography-2","category-urban","tag-bus","tag-camera","tag-edinburgh","tag-impressionism","tag-impressionist","tag-long-exposure","tag-movement","tag-photography","tag-urban-2","tag-zoom","has-thumbnail"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Bus-Impressionism-Philippe-Monthoux-Edinburgh-Urban-3.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Bus-Impressionism-Philippe-Monthoux-Edinburgh-Urban-3.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"PhilsBlog","author_link":"https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/author\/philsblog\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1022"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1535,"href":"https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022\/revisions\/1535"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}