I have been experimenting with closeup botanical photos with longer exposures that show movement. None of mine are any good at all, and this one is excellent.
It's hard for me to express the excitement I feel - these photos are (in my experience) really hard to put together and even harder to anticipate how motion will show. And there's so much that's just right, here - depth of field just so, amount of motion just so.
Well, thanks. I have been trying to capture wind for quite some time now, but the results are few.
I have a couple of more that I was planning on posting in the weeks to come, and maybe more will be added to the collection during the summer.
I guess there is no surprise that these shots are more or less a numbers game.
I have found that the best way is to put up a tripod and point the camera at the point where the leave would be whne the wind is best. The you have to just stand around and stare at the darn thing until you learn how it moves, and until you learn how the sound of the wind changes just before it is the way you want it to be. Pretty time consuming, but I guess you know even more about that than I do. I've both seen and read about your beach shots.
I have been very busy lately so I am sorry about late comments.
Often pictures of plants show a life form that does not move, photographers try very hard to keep everything still. Here you have used movement to you benefit, it is the subject of the picture.
My husband and I both looked at this image and I said to him...this makes me want to sing SWAY by M.Buble.
He just looked at me funny and walked off without saying anything. Oh well, what did I say?
I'll sing it to myself.
Like a flower bending in the breeze
Bend with me, sway with ease
When we dance you have a way with me
Stay with me, sway with me.
>I guess there is no surprise that these shots are more or less a numbers game.
I'm not sure that I agree with this - in fact your later words also contradict. Seeing the potential and then observing closely enough to understand how the plant is going to behave as the wind changes are crucial parts. An infinite number of monkeys with infinite time and an infinite number of cameras wouldn't necessarily create a good still photograph.
You're kind of right, and yes, I did contradict myself, but I think both arguments are right.
No matter how long I wait and look, it still is so many things that are unpredictable. The leaves are vibrating and shaking, and it is impossible to tell exactly how fast. Experience and learning get me close to the target, but to hit bulls eye I just have to fire enough shots in the general direction and hope for the best. So the monkey (me) must aim the camera at something potential, and wait for the right moment, but I can only predict that moment with maybe 50% accuracy, and if I do predict right, I only hit that moment with a 0.2-0.5 sec. precision. It doesn't last for more than a tenth of that time.
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I have been experimenting with closeup botanical photos with longer exposures that show movement. None of mine are any good at all, and this one is excellent.
It's hard for me to express the excitement I feel - these photos are (in my experience) really hard to put together and even harder to anticipate how motion will show. And there's so much that's just right, here - depth of field just so, amount of motion just so.
Beautiful.
Comment by Paul [Member] — 11/07/08 @ 00:52
I have a couple of more that I was planning on posting in the weeks to come, and maybe more will be added to the collection during the summer.
I guess there is no surprise that these shots are more or less a numbers game.
I have found that the best way is to put up a tripod and point the camera at the point where the leave would be whne the wind is best. The you have to just stand around and stare at the darn thing until you learn how it moves, and until you learn how the sound of the wind changes just before it is the way you want it to be. Pretty time consuming, but I guess you know even more about that than I do. I've both seen and read about your beach shots.
Comment by Kjell [Member] · http://blog.lentic.net/ — 11/07/08 @ 04:48
Often pictures of plants show a life form that does not move, photographers try very hard to keep everything still. Here you have used movement to you benefit, it is the subject of the picture.
Comment by Robert [Member] · http://www.roberthoehne.com — 11/07/08 @ 15:19
He just looked at me funny and walked off without saying anything. Oh well, what did I say?
I'll sing it to myself.
Like a flower bending in the breeze
Bend with me, sway with ease
When we dance you have a way with me
Stay with me, sway with me.
Comment by Irena [Member] — 11/07/08 @ 23:12
I'm not sure that I agree with this - in fact your later words also contradict. Seeing the potential and then observing closely enough to understand how the plant is going to behave as the wind changes are crucial parts. An infinite number of monkeys with infinite time and an infinite number of cameras wouldn't necessarily create a good still photograph.
Comment by Colin [Member] · http://www.auspiciousdragon.net — 17/07/08 @ 21:12
No matter how long I wait and look, it still is so many things that are unpredictable. The leaves are vibrating and shaking, and it is impossible to tell exactly how fast. Experience and learning get me close to the target, but to hit bulls eye I just have to fire enough shots in the general direction and hope for the best. So the monkey (me) must aim the camera at something potential, and wait for the right moment, but I can only predict that moment with maybe 50% accuracy, and if I do predict right, I only hit that moment with a 0.2-0.5 sec. precision. It doesn't last for more than a tenth of that time.
Comment by Kjell [Member] · http://blog.lentic.net/ — 17/07/08 @ 21:32