What is ICM Photography | How to Make Abstract Images Using ICM
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- Опубликовано: 27 июл 2024
- ICM is a really fun technique to use if you want to create some more abstract landscape photography images. The focus of ICM photography is the colours and patterns of the environment. Instead of focusing on finding a composition and getting the settings exactly right, ICM photography allows us to loosen up, forget the technical stuff and just take interesting photos.
ICM is an acronym for Intentional Camera Movement and involves us moving the camera as we create an image to make an abstract ‘painting’ of the landscape rather than a particular emphasis on a subject.
I principally use ICM in three different environments: the forest, the seaside and the mountains. But those are my three favourite environments for all landscape photography. Plenty of example images of ICM photography in this video, I also go through how I create ICM images including the different motions that I do to create my different images.
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I have been teaching my junior photography students this for years it helps them develop artistic freedom. I learnt it from light painting, and using the zoom effect. Thankyou for such clarity on the subject. I did not even know it had its own abbreviation.
I started this ‘ICM’ 41 years ago on 35mm film. Back then i used a high street store to develop my film , on occasion they sent negatives back and no prints saying the whole 36 shots were unusable. I had to then tell them to print off any shots i sent in and to not try adjust them.
2 years after i joined the military and soon became a photographer for them and they taught me how to develop film etc freeing me up to develop my own abstract films. One huge tip i have over the years is to use BULB mode. Hope this helps. I am now an artist painting abstracts of music in oil paints as i see music in colours. When i got my first digital camera blow my mind and opened massively the work i could do
I have really enjoyed watching your video, I have only recently discovered ICM and have taken some (I think) very interesting and exciting shots . As I suffer from Essential Trembling ( which is not at all "Essential " ) Or so I thought! However, ICM is the perfect medium to deal w ith the shakes. I love your work and have found your advice very useful. Thank you.
Excellent video Daniel! I’ve been watching a number of other ICM videos lately but learned more actual, usable technique from this than all the others combined.
Great tutorial. Very helpful
thank you for a fantastic video
Thank you very much Daniel for this very clear and well structured tutorial and these beautiful pictures. Especially those taken at the mountain ranges are really spectacular in my opinion. I like them very much! These colours… great inspiration!
Thank you. I've never done any ICM so now I'm ready to try it! Great video.
Thank you. I look forward to more videos.
I'm appreciate so much your precious time at give us your experience in this kinds of magic art!!!
Loved some of the mountain and beach shots.
Absolutely wonderful video,beautiful images and the best part is explanation.Very easy to understand for a novice like me.I will try and hope to get some some good images.Thank you so much once again.Wishing you a very happy new year.
I love those images, and can't wait to try ICM myself. Such images seem perfect for printing very large for hanging in a living room or bedroom.
Thank you for the great explanation and examples of ICM.
Excellent tutorial. I'm about to head out for my first ICM shooting foray and your video was recommended as a resource. I'll be trying everything!
I have recently tried a few seascape motion blur photos at sunset and managed to get a mixture of soft pastel colours. I had never considered moving my camera in a different direction than a horizontal sweep. Your video has broadened my thoughts about different subject to capture motion blur images. Thank you for this brilliant video
This was a great video… very detailed and clear. And I love your ICM images! Thank you.
It is always interesting to see creativity. Thanks
Fantastic tutorial. I'm so inspired now to experiment with ICM. Thanks for sharing your knowledge. BTW. I love the photos!
Beautiful images.
Thank you, very helpful!
Love it! Thanks for the vid.
Hi Daniel, I like the abstract nature of ICM and have produced a couple that I liked, it is a fun side to creating our own art, zoom blur can produce some interesting images too just twist a zoom lens as you take the shot instead of the panning motion. Take care, all the best Tim
Oooo I never thought of zoom blur before, excellent tip, I will definitely have to give it a go. Thanks a lot Tim! 😊
The examples of ICM that I've seen by others hadn't impressed me, but might try some of these.
Excellent video. I subbed. Thank you for the lesson
Great tutorial! Very informative thanks for uploading
Love the images am going to give this a go . Thank you .
Thank you for a wonder explanation on ICM, and stunning examples. Great pointers.
Glad it was helpful! 😊
Thanks for sharing. Will try jiggly haha.
I've been looking to know how to get this effect, i didn't know how!! Thanks for the info, very interesting!!
Excellent explanation and your images are wonderful - thx for sharing.
Would love a video on post-processing your images.
wow, it is very crieativ.and i love this
Great Vlog, brilliant photography tutorial, thanks for sharing
Thanks Tony! I hope you try it! 😄 👍🏻
Great video lots of good info ! I agree you can take some beautiful images doing icm photography
Beautiful pictures, thank you for sharing the images and approach.
Hi, I really enjoyed your video and am excited to have a go. A few years ago I took a whole series of similar images at the seaside that worked out really well. The main difference was that I was panning with a wave, with my camera on a tripod, so certain parts of the wave were in focus, with blurred movement of the rest of the water. Not sure if I’m able to add an example here or not? Anyway I’m heading off to the local woods asap.
I loved your images in ICM photography, particularly the ocean scenes and the mountains. I would be very interested in a video about post processing of ICM images.
Thanks Lisa, I'm going to work on an editing video as well. I tend to approach editing completely different to my general landscape photography thanks to the abstract nature of ICM I am more bold with pushing the settings, especially contrast, dehaze and saturation. Hope this helps for now and I will get on to that video soon 👍🏻
Yes I would like to see how you edit your ICM photos.
Nicely done. I hope to try ICM even if I am there for a typical sharp landscape. Good video.
Hope you're having some fun with ICM, as long as you're at a location already you might as well play around with ICM! 😄
I like these images. They remind me of French Impressionism type paintings which I also like. I want to try this in the city with hustle and bustle, skylines, traffic, etc. I'm assuming you turn off the image stabilization in the camera.
Thank you~
Your welcome 😊
I would also be interested to see how you edit icm in post.. thanks
Daniel I love this video thank you. However I do see that some images seem sharper than others. If the image is too blurry, it hurts the eyes. Any ideas on getting motion and somewhat sharp images?
Well explained Daniel all give this a go next time I have the camera out 😀😀
Excellent David 😊. It's a lot of fun, I always end up taking retaking images over and over because they look so different until I get the exact balance of colours and movement for the image I had in mind 👍🏻
Very informative. I will give it a try. Enjoyed your tutorial and portfolio. Do you have a favourite fl? I've just purchased my first prime lens; a 35mm 1.8 DX for my D5500. Thanks very much. Subscribed.
Hey Heather, just to clarify your question, you are asking about a favourite f stop right? If so, in general I don't worry about my f stop when doing ICM because depth of field is not important, the most important factor for me in ICM is the shutter speed because I want to get it low enough that the movement creates a nice image. So with ICM F stop is the last setting I set and I adjust that based on the light, whereas in normal landscape photography it's often the opposite, I set my aperture and then the shutter speed is determined by the light. I hope that's answered your question. If not let me know and I'll do my best 😊
Hello 👋 good video
Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it 😊