I loved your presentation. I've just started ICM and you have opened up unlimited possibilities. Thank you

I experimented with Haas-like movement images in early 80s with horse, ballet, etc images, as well as double-exposures. Then, I put away my cameras. Recently, I decided to go back to photography, but with digital cameras. I stumbled onto your videos and have tried more types of ICM, including triple-exposures and a few 1-sec ICMs during a rainstorm. Thanks for inspiration.

A most excellent video!!! I’ve been shooting ICM for over a year (still lots to learn) and this was incredibly helpful to me - not only re-visiting what I already knew but I loved the details you presented on the type of movement and the shutter speed used. Your images are amazing and I now feel inspired once again to just go out and “shake, rattle & roll” 😁

@charlottebellamycreativeph9021

Ай бұрын

Brilliant, thanks so much for letting me know - I am so glad it helps you to develop your ICM skills - enjoy the shale rattle and roll - might have to use that as a title somewhere!!!

Absolutely LOVE your "debunking the myths" slide 🤣

@charlottebellamycreativeph9021

3 ай бұрын

Thanks Colin - I'd love to do a recording just about myths in general! LOL Might make many enemies though!

Hi Charlotte. Thank you Charlotte for such wonderful tutorial!! I discovered your ICM art & techniques through Kim Grant a while back, and watching your videos and admiring your images has inspired me to experiment with creating my own ICM images. Being able to listen to & learn about your ICM journey and the techniques you use is proving to be a real inspiration for me and I am learning so much - thank-you. I'm still at the beginning of my ICM journey but last week whilst at a rocky beach on the south coast of Wellington, NZ I just wasn't inspired by the seascape scenes so I experimented with ICM and the rocky foreshore. The images I created definitely divided opinion among my friends, some like them others not so much but I'm okay with that. However one friend living in the states likes a couple of my images so much he wants to hang prints up in their house - amazing!! Once again thank-you 🙏 Stu H 😎

@charlottebellamycreativeph9021

2 ай бұрын

Stu, thank you sooooo much for your lovely comment. I always say if I can help and inspire just one person I am delighted and happy. This makes me very happy! LOL. Dividing opinion is great - it means you are creating images that make people think and question. How wonderful someone wants to hang your work in their house. ICM is the most wonderful creative technique you can make with your camera. I love Kim's work and follow her regular postings, her ethos towards photography is super. I hope you continue to enjoy the videos I post - they are a bit sporadic, but do eventually happen! There will be one on bluebells soon.

@stuhhamptonphotography

2 ай бұрын

@@charlottebellamycreativeph9021 Thank-You for your lovely reply. Through listening to Kim I've learnt to be more considered and thoughtful about my image creation so learning about how you approach ICM is building on my being more mindful of the scenery I'm in and the images I want to create. You've already taught me one important lesson in that your ICM images will enhance the scenery or location your in and not mask totally where are are!! Anyway I love creating images of bluebells they are so photogenic so will look forward to learning more, this will help when our bluebells flower in our springtime in August/September here in NZ.

Excellent, thank you Charlie! You have reinspired me to get back into ICM.

@charlottebellamycreativeph9021

3 ай бұрын

BRILLIANT - There are so many possibilities to explore

This was fantastic Charlotte - I have dabbled with ICM but wasn't always what I was trying to do. This has given me so much information and areas to focus on. I primarily take wildlife images - your ones of the geese were brilliant!

@charlottebellamycreativeph9021

3 ай бұрын

Thanks for such an enthusiastic response - I have loved making the geese images, its been a long learning curve but when it all builds and you see what you want in the back of the camera it is very satisfying. Enjoy. Charlie

Thanks for the solid explanations and the amount of interesting examples !

@charlottebellamycreativeph9021

3 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it, thanks for taking the time to leave me a comment and let me know. Charlie

Amazing work. One interesting thing about ICM on streets is that people are not identified anymore!

@charlottebellamycreativeph9021

3 ай бұрын

I know its great - so if anyone ever questions you, show them the back of the camera and they will never have an issue with it!

Since Covid lockdown I've rather lost my photgraphy mojo. You've given it back to me. Thank you for this inspirational video.

@charlottebellamycreativeph9021

3 ай бұрын

Oh thats so good to hear, glad it helped in some way. Charlie

Brilliant - so helpful and has given me new ideas for my own photography 😊

@charlottebellamycreativeph9021

3 ай бұрын

Thanks for the comment, glad it was useful. Enjoy your photography.

Very helpful, thank you.

@charlottebellamycreativeph9021

Ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!Just in case you would like to be kept up-to-date with new articles, presentations and webinars and training I send out a monthly newsletter that you can register for by going to my website and scrolling half way down the home page to the signup point. As a thank-you, you can download a free ebook. charlottebellamy.com/ Thanks Charlie

A fantastic presentation as always, Charlotte. I primarily focus on street photography with my ICM since I live in the city but I see all the wonderful opportunities that you present in scenes and still life subjects too. I do have a little bit of that here and your talk is a great reminder to explore other subjects through intentional camera movement.

@charlottebellamycreativeph9021

3 ай бұрын

Thank you for your lovely comment. I do love my trees and water, but always surprise myself when i venture into an urban location at what I am drawn to. I actually wrote a blog post recently about my trip into Amsterdam and using my iphone for ICM to capture people movement and the feel of the location you might like that being a street photographer? - charlottebellamy.com/when-it-all-gets-a-bit-busy-try-and-find-a-focus/

@iTurnPeopleIntoArt

3 ай бұрын

@@charlottebellamycreativeph9021I'll definitely have a look at that. My last trip to Amsterdam was in part for street photography and it wasn't all that I thought it could be in the city center. At that time I hadn't discovered ICM for myself yet:) Thanks for the link, I'll definitely have a look.

Thanks a lot for inspirational images. I’ve done ICM:s for some years now and I often find myself coming back and continue it, even if I had other plans 🤓 take care! Göran in Latvia

@charlottebellamycreativeph9021

3 ай бұрын

Thank you, great to hear you come back to ICM and enjoy it. I still create sharp images and explore all techniques with my photography. I love to respond to the location in a way that represents what i see and feel, sometimes this is ICM, but not always. Enjoy your photography.

Really enjoyed this presentation, Charlie. I have a question about the photos you took with the iPhone app, near the end of your presentation. I am wondering how you get such vibrant colours when using your phone? I find mine to be quite muted, lacking contrast and kind of dull. I’ve tried changing up various settings in the apps but I’m still not getting rich colours like you just showed. Thanks a lot!

@charlottebellamycreativeph9021

3 ай бұрын

I think it probably has to do with starting with a contrsating image - so even if its just browns there are normally creams in there to contrast to. I also use light a lot so that the colours pop out against the other elements. Hope that helps - otherwise no secret!

Thank you Charlotte for such wonderful tutorial. I wonder if you have played attempting to simulate ICM in your post processing workflow, starting with a "normal" image. Do you have any comments about that? Thank you.

@charlottebellamycreativeph9021

3 ай бұрын

Thanks so much for your comment. Yes I have experimented with this. It is good to know how to do it, and in one project I was 'missing' an image to complete the set and made it in this way to compliment the other 'real' ICM images. I love the images where there is one small elemsnt still sharp and the rest has been manipulated, although I tend to do this via multiple exposure now. Just be aware that creating ICMs in PS - the edges of the canvas always show a very sharp line detail which is a give away to a judge or anyone else looking at the image that it has been created in post production.

@photonsonpixels

3 ай бұрын

@@charlottebellamycreativeph9021 Thank you for your kind reply and comments, Charlotte. Very insightful indeed. Thank you.

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@charlottebellamycreativeph9021

3 ай бұрын

Thank you!

Lots of ideas to think about. What I'd like to do is to see if ICM can reproduce something of the watercolour work of Turner, especially in his later years. So I can see some use of ME as well as ICM for this. Might this be an idea for another video? Thanks

@charlottebellamycreativeph9021

3 ай бұрын

Thanks for the suggestion - I too love the work of Turner, and love the feel of his work. I actually watched some tutorials on his work to try and learn a little how to paint with watercolours like he did (much harder than you might imagine). Have to seen the work of Erik Malm? He creates some lovely work with sharp and ICM elements within it but all within one shutter press. I will look up the work that you suggest and see about possibilities. Did you see this video I made looking at the sort of process of using still and movement within one shutter? kzread.info/dash/bejne/mYOro5udhZWsY7w.html