{"id":1116,"date":"2017-08-03T11:53:25","date_gmt":"2017-08-03T11:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/?p=1116"},"modified":"2020-03-23T11:33:17","modified_gmt":"2020-03-23T11:33:17","slug":"edinburgh-international-festival-colour-abstracts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/edinburgh-international-festival-colour-abstracts\/","title":{"rendered":"Edinburgh International Festival: Colour Abstracts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Circus Hub is one of the most colourful attractions at the annual Edinburgh International Festival, which is why it immediately got my attention.<\/p>\n

\"Colour
For this photo, I stood in front of a colourful wall and moved the camera up and down during the 1\/4 sec exposure<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

When I see a colourful subject, I like to explore abstract pictures using camera movement during a long exposure or in camera multiple exposures. It is a taste I acquired by following one of my favourite photographers, Bryan F. Peterson<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Colour
As the ambient light level fell for some time, I was able to use longer shutter speeds, like 1 sec for this photograph. Along with the up and down movement, there was also a little bit of sideways motion to add to the blur.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

With this particular wall, I first tried camera movement. The brightness level of the ambient light varied quite a bit while I was taking photographs, which is pretty much par for the course in Scotland. I was able to use shutter speeds between 1\/4 sec and 1 sec. I had the most success moving the camera up and down or up and down and a little bit sideways.<\/p>\n

\"Colour
For this picture, I rotated the camera clockwise by about thirty degrees or so after the first and second exposures.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I next moved to multiple exposures. I had the most success when I rotated the camera between each of the three exposures. It took a bit of experimentation to get something I like but it\u2019s always fun to do.<\/p>\n

\"Colour
For this photograph, I rotated the camera a bit more. I believe I took one pic horizontal, one at forty-five degrees and one vertical.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Next time you find a colourful bed of flowers or painted wall, why don\u2019t you try some camera movement and multiple exposures. I warn you, the process can be addictive.<\/p>\n

\"Colour
I moved to a different part of the coloured wall, and tried again the horizontal, forty-five degrees and vertical shots.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Circus Hub is one of the most colourful attractions at the annual Edinburgh International Festival, which is why it immediately…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1118,"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":[51,27,42,43],"tags":[132,213,314,275,188,294,313,315,312,292,293,82],"class_list":["post-1116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-color","category-edinburgh","category-experimentation","category-photography-2","tag-abstract","tag-camera","tag-circus","tag-colour","tag-edinburgh","tag-exposures","tag-festival","tag-hub","tag-international","tag-movement","tag-multiple","tag-panning","has-thumbnail"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Colour-Abstract-Circus-Hub-Fringe-Festival-Edinburgh-Philippe-Monthoux-02.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Colour-Abstract-Circus-Hub-Fringe-Festival-Edinburgh-Philippe-Monthoux-02.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\/1116","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=1116"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1123,"href":"https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116\/revisions\/1123"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}