Post 27- A Very Different type of Street Photography

I am always looking for photographers who's work catches my eye. Moy discovered an ICM (intentional camera movement) specialist called Alex Fredricksen on SheClicks Facebook group. Her work represents a really different approach to "street" photography.

Alex Fredericksen is based in Austria and creates "street scenes" where the human subjects are blurred to such an extent that they are barely recognisable. These abstract images seem to combine slow shutter speeds with ICM and I am determined to imitate the effect.
We both had a first attempt on a recent visit to Derby Cathedral and I am quite pleased with the early results.

My images are a long way from being good imitations of Alex's work but with careful subject selection and practice I hope to improve. We plan to go to Leicester next week to do street photography so will have a chance to refine our techniques.


During the Leicester day I only spent a  few minutes taking slow shutter speed shots and was unable to produce anything better than my first attempts in Derby. Clearly I will need to spend much more time refining this technique.

Post 26- Blurry backgrounds

I have recently been experimenting with blurry backgrounds. Those in the know call this effect Bokeh and rave about it. There is a growing trend to use vintage lenses attached to modern cameras because these lenses are said to produce softer or creamier bokeh. That may be so but I am not keen enough on the effect to invest in such lenses even though they are a fraction of the price of modern lenses.
For months now I have been starting to take pictures of flowers and these lend themselves to being framed so as to accentuate the bokeh. Moy and I went out one late afternoon last week to Darley Park and spent an hour capturing images of dead and dying flowers. A year ago this prospect would have filled me with horror but I actually had quite a good time and produced a number of really nice images. I used my normal zoom lens and am quite pleased with the soft backgrounds the images had. I need more practice to fully understand the bokeh effect but feel I have made a reasonable start.
Here are some of the images.

I also took a few very nice double exposures that are nice and soft.

The Journey continues,