Intentional Camera Movement

This photo reminds me of Igor Grabar's ‘Hoar Forest’ post-impressionist painting. The leading lines take us past the vertically blurred trees and lets our imagination fill-in what lies beyond. A simple yet powerful composition with strong vertical use of ICM. I like the white space framing the rows of trees which accentuates the colour of the pastel foliage.

Echoing the colours of an English romantic waterscape this photo ticks all the intentional camera movement boxes. It has the right amount of blurred movement added to the colours of a J.M.W.Turner oil painting. If it was my photo I would have removed the feint black lines in the sky above the pier but that doesn't spoil my enjoyment of looking at the photo. Well done.

This photo could almost be an expressionist oil painting by Mark Rothko. The simple composition made up of two halves leads the eye to the tiny, tiny farmhouse centred on the horizon. Beautifully muted colours, beautifully captured light and a beautifully composed landscape. Very good use of intentional camera movement.

This is just like an Edgar Degas impressionist painting of ballet dancers. I can see ballerinas in yellow tutus delicately pirouetting in-between black-eyed Susan flower stalks. The use of intentional camera movement softly exaggerates their vertical and sideway movements like a well-choreographed Busby Berkeley ballet performance.

Reminiscent of Toulouse-Lautrec's observations of life inside the Moulin Rouge - I can even see can-can dancer's raised petticoats with kick high legs. The asymmetric composition with it’s moving slabs of vignetted colours gives this photo a fluidity worthy of a Lautrec painting. A masterful use of the camera as a paintbrush.

A restrained and subtle use of intentional camera movement has enhanced the mystery of this unknown lady photographed in an Oxford street. I never imagined that ICM would work so well for a portrait but this enigmatic photo has proved me wrong. A uniquely original subject matter for ICM and a well conceived piece of fine art.

This is like a Paul Cézanne colour palette let loose in Claude Monet’s Giverny garden. Waves of oranges, reds and pinks leaping through the dark green background are a pure joy. The long exposed camera movement works well creating a photo of shapes and patterns in a riotous swirl of carnival colour.

I've encountered the problem of photographing gondolas bobbing up and down on this Venetian canal myself. It never occurred to me to use intentional camera movement to extentuate the vertical lines. Well done for using it to your advantage. Canaletto would have been impressed by your impressionism. Bellissimo.