Shifting Landscapes
Visual Art and Photography by Al Keddie — Abstract Painting, Digital Art, ICM, Landscape, and Urban Street Works from Scotland and Aotearoa New Zealand
Category: Intentional Camera Movement (ICM) Photography
Intentional Camera Movement (ICM) photography by Alistair Keddie, creating abstract and expressive images through movement, light and long exposure.
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Wind Shakes Tree
I can’t actually remember whether the wind was shaking each tree, but the impression remains in both these painterly photographs — each shaped by motion, light, and chance to create a distinctly atmospheric ‘other’.
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Another Forest Edge
I’ve always been fascinated by long-exposure photography and the surreal, transcendent qualities it captures across time. This landscape is from a series shot a few years back when I began seriously exploring intentional camera movement. ICM blends long-exposure with motion to produce abstract and impressionistic photography full of unintentional, but intriguing surprise. Increasingly, demands on time…
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Underworld
Another painterly long-exposure landscape from a recent series shot with iPhone and magnifying lens in constant motion to produce a dark and highly textured impression of a tree viewed somehow from the underworld.
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Wild Landscape
One of the things I love most about this type of painterly long-exposure photography is the often unpredictable and surprising results the intentional movements can lend and been experimenting for some time with a magnifying glass held in front of the iPhone camera lens with both moving together, but also independently, to capture a range…