ICM tutorial Exploring shutter speed and periods of stillness in an exposure
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 ก.พ. 2023
- A 30 minute ICM tutorial, looking at different shutter speeds and different movements within an ICM exposure. A discussion on using periods of stillness within an ICM image and also how you can create a multiple exposure look also. I'd love to hear any comments or questions.
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Beautifully demonstrated and explained. Most helpful and some wonderful results. Thank you Charlotte
I have been having a great time with ICM but doing the standard up/ down movements...I never thought of stopping and then moving. Thank you for the excellent video and actually showing the movements and outcomes in your images
Thanks so much for your comment. It is actually a fairly new thing for me to experiment with as well.
Very informative. I've done some ICM in the past with only small success. I'm so excited now to play with different ICM techniques. Thanks!
Super thanks for your comment, glad it helped your understanding - have fun.
Thank you for one of the finest photography tutorials on the web.
Wow, thanks you so much Byron - praise indeed - glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for your comment, much appreciated. Charlie
Thanks, Charlotte. Very detailed and straight to the point
Thanks glad you enjoyed it.
Great Video, one of the most detailed ICM videos !
Thank you so much for such a lovely comment, much appreciated.
Thank you. I grabbed a flower & followed along!
Brilliant - thanks for letting me know xx
Fascinating, Charlotte. Many thanks. I will give ICM a proper go now!
Great, I hope you enjoy it.
This is an very interesting tutorial, it opens my eyes to see different movements can result in different effects. amazing. Thank you,
Thanks for your comment, I am glad it has helped your understanding.
Lovely, you have inspired me to try them on wildlife ( birds and small ambhibians maybe to begin with)
Have fun, I love my bird ICM - not tried amphibians though!
Thanks a lot! Very inspiring to follow your tutorials. For the last one and an half year or so, I’m doing most of my photography in ICM. Take care. Göran from Latvia
Thank you for your lovely comment. I'm glad you are enjoying the tutorials and enjoying your ICM photography.
Hi Charlotte and greetings from Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA. Wow, looks like you published this around the first of the year and I’m just discovering you in September! Not only discovering you, but ICM photography as well. So excited to explore a whole new world of creative photography. Thank you so much ;)
Wow, thank you!So glad you enjoyed the video - there are many others to have a look at on my channel - i really must get some new ones out soon!
Really interesting and looking forward to having a similar play. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Charlotte, Well done I thank you for taking the time to explain the process. It gives me a foundation to base my icm processing. Very well done I look forward to more.........take care!!
You are so welcome! Glad you enjoyed it and it helped with your understanding and learning.
I enjoyed that and your natural way of presenting it!
Yay, thank you! Thanks so much - it was a bit of a new one in front of the camera - i'm much more comfortable behind it!
Very hepful Charlie - it has inspired me to try the "alternative" Pep Ventosa technique and the 6 second variations. I'm off to Torridon on Thursday so will have a week to try them out!
Haha the alternative pep ventosa!!! Have fun with it - if you do more small stops you almost up with an impressionistic feel - so if you are working with a landscape you could do 3 rows to cover more of the scene. Choices choices.
Love this! Incredibly helpful to see the movements, have yo explain what you are doing and then show us the results. Thanks!
Thanks Scottee - something a bit different to the wider outdoor images I normally create, but a great way to demonstrate some basics that you can go out and use with whatever sort of ICM you do.
Another great video Charlotte, Thanks for sharing.
My pleasure 😊 Thanks John - glad you found a few of the videos
very clear and well produced. Thank you.
You're very welcome! Glad you enjoyed it - something a bit new for me, but it was fun to experiment and also record and share that learning process.
Belle session d'apprentissage ICM, meilleurs voeux à vous bien sûr
Merci beaucoup. I hope thats not too bad French!
Lovely ! 🌷🥀🌷🥀🌷 Thank you very much ! 🙏🏽
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it.
Great tutorial !❤
Thank you! 😊 so much, glad you ejoyed it.
Very helpful - thanks so much!
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you very much for sharing I enjoyed your approach to ICM. Plus I going to try it, I love your approach and have a few ideas I want to try.
Glad it was helpful! Thanks for your comment, much apprecaited
Very nice!
Thanks!
That was a great demonstration, Charlie. It was very interesting to see the various movements and holds and the results from each. I’m curious what the tripod (head) is that you were using for the camera that you were moving. Mine doesn’t move as fluidly as yours seems to have done. Thanks for another useful lesson.
Thanks, Marion. The head on the tripod is a simple ball head that came with the tripod. Basically, it's a ball that sits in a socket that can move nearly 360 degrees in any direction, so you can be completely fluid with the movements you make. It's not great to keep straight lines as it moves a little in all directions! It sounds as though your tripod head is more useful for vertical and horizontal panning to keep beautiful lines. This link may be useful to figure out what you have. www.cliftoncameras.co.uk/Blog/Tripod-Heads-Explained
Thank you very much for this detailed and explanatory lesson. How did you prevent over/under exposure during the 2 - 13 seconds shutter speed range? Thank you.
Many thanks for your comment. When working with ICM I choose the shutter speed and then balance the other settings. So in this case as I increased the shutter speed length i reduced the ISO and increased the F stop, and vice versa when i i speeded the shutter up. I hope that helps. In this case i did not use any filters s it was quite a dark room.
@@charlottebellamycreativeph9021 Thank you. I asked about overall overexposure, thinking as a film photographer where multiple exposures added to the first one on one film space. Now I understand - in digital camera shots are blending, not summarising.
Great video and instruction. I do have a question, did you use any type of ND filter?
For this video I did not. I was photographing indoors and against a dark background so managed just playing with a low iso and high F stop number around F36. Outside i do often use a filter and I have a 6 stop Urth screw on filter.
Thank you for letting me know how you did this. Love your work and it inspires me to keep at it and keep improving.
haha so you're doing a Paintinggraphy, beautiful🧡
Thank you so much!
Very helpful Charlotte! Did you use a filter for any of your long (13 sec+) exposures? I really don't like to stop the aperture way down because of the sensor dust spots that seem inevitable! Can take some time to clean those up! Thank you.
Hi there Kimberly. No I didnt use a filter at all. It was quite an overcast day, and the background I was working with was really dark so it had no reflective properties. Ive only started using a mirrorless camera a year ago, before that I always felt a filter was a layer between me and the image i was trying to make. Now i get a better feel, but i still need to develop the practice of using one. When I do though, I use a 6 stop screw on Urth filter.
Great video! Just one thing, how do you manage to keep the tulip in the focus area when you click the shutter button ,and know exactly in which direction to move the camera in order to get two or three tulips? I've noticed that in your live view mode you have a circle, or focus ring. I'm not aware that my nikon d5300 has this feature. Any tips please?
Hi, thanks for your comment. I use either back button focus with auto focus or I move the focus point around the scene depending on where I want the focus with manual focus. I'm afraid I can't remember which one in this. With regards to where to move the camera - the direction is a personal choice, but if I want the tulips to appear separate I make sure I give them some space where I want to move too initially. To get 2 tulips, you need to hold the camera still twice, to get 3 you need 3 times and so on. I hope that helps?
@@charlottebellamycreativeph9021 Thank you Charlotte, I'm going to try with back button focus with auto focus and compare it to manual focus. Then I'll stick with the easier of the two! 😅 I'll see how it goes, I guess the moving part is trial and error. I'll have your video on when practising. Have a great day!
Hi Charlotte, thanks for the tutorial, if you don't mine could ask do you switch off the ibis in the camera I tend to find with ibis on I need to do more vigorous movements, thanks again.
Hi there Barry. I always have IBIS turned off whenever I am shooting ICM photography. By leaving it on, your camera will fight against the movements you are trying to make. You would be amazed how good the stabilization in some cameras is these days! Hope that helps.
Sometimes I zoom my lens barrel during exposure
Yes thats a movement i try sometimes, can create a really neat result.
Hi
Great video... but I use mobile android mainly and can't find an app that works well... any suggestions?
Hi there Camera FV5 apparently offers the same opportunities as Slow Shutter cam
Thank you for such a great tutorial! One thing. The volume should be a little louder. I have my volume at 100%. Maybe it's me.
Sorry about that. I know some of my earlier videos were quiet - i had hoped to have fixed that. I will look into it, thanks for letting me know.
Thank you for your help. Is the name Bentoza?
Pep ventoza
Did you use an ND filter.
Hi there - no, i was not using an ND filter for this video. I was at the lowest ISO (100) a high depth of field (F32) and the room I was working in was not so bright.
I’m interested in starting some ICM photography and have a question. Do you disable IBIS for this? It would make sense to me that you do but thought I would ask anyway 😊
Yes I never use image stabilisation - it fights the movement yuu are trying to make - if you ever ebd up with a haze over a sharpish image in ICM, chances are you have forgotten to turn it off!
@@charlottebellamycreativeph9021 thanks for the reply !!!!
Is it possible there are different versions of snapseed? I've been a snapseed user for years now and i can tell you the snapseed I've been using dose not do that, double exposure tool has none of these extra tool options
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Hi Russell - I don't use snapseed - I use Pixlr. If I said Snapseed than I said it accidentally, apologies for any confusion.
Informative video tried to checkout Eric Mom but couldn't find anything, have I got his name correct.
Eric Malm erikmalm.com/ I hope that helps
Thank you.
Thanks for the video. However, the video quality is only 480p and that takes away some viewing pleasure and is uncomfortable for 'my' eyes'. 1080p should be the minimum quality.
Thanks - I wasn't aware it was of a low quality - i will endeavour to improve on that next time. Thanks for the heads up.
n.b. you can't read the settings on the screen - they are too blurred, even at full screen.
Im sorry about that Jane - i will check on this for future recordings
@@charlottebellamycreativeph9021 Thank you, Charlotte. The video was excellent, btw!
cannot hear and understan most of what she/you are saying!!🤔
Sorry you had problems with the sound on this.
this is great stuff - really helpful close look at how to vary the effects with time and movement. I really love the one at 24:13. Just so dreamlike
Thanks so much for your comment - lovely to see you continue to enjoy the tutorials. Charlie