49 Camera tossing
Embracing camera shake
Kevin Meredith
The Idea
A photographer will usually do their level best to keep their camera stationary while it is capturing an exposure, but with camera tossing, the idea is to never let the camera be still-to embrace camera shake and motion blur. Where camera shake sometimes gives you unwanted light trails, the idea of kinetic photography is to extend those light trails.
Blue Ripples Shot in an alleyway with a string of lights. I pointed my camera at the sky and spun for about TO seconds while the exposure was being taken
The Ingredients
- ▶ Any camera that can shoot with a shutter speed of 1/2 sec or longer
The Process
All the images in this section where shot with a shutter speed of 1 second or over: ...
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