The drunk effect

Have you ever been so drunk that everything looks fuzzy, unstable and kind of dreamy?
Myself I don't drink any more but I think most of us have a memory in the distant or recent past that can be related with that :)

I am not nostalgic of my drinking days, it is just that the first thing that come into my mind when I heard about IMC photography, was that feeling of fuzziness!

Of course that was quite far from a proper definition so I'll borrow the words of Julia Anna Gospodarou for a more descriptive and less metaphorical explanation.

Intentional Camera Movement or ICM is a creative way of working with long exposure photography and it implies deliberately moving the camera during an exposure. ICM is both a technique and an artistic way of expression. It can be used as a tool to modify reality, with the intent of creating an emotional response in the viewer.
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I am an old-fashioned guy. I was raised with the belief that in order to take a good photo, you have to have a steady hand. And after 30 years in photography I just found out that a shaky hand can produce art :)
OK I am just kidding, I was familiar with the technique but not the term. Panning for example, witch is the simplest ICM move (you follow with the camera a moving subject), is one of the things that I know from my first year in the school of photography.

Or zooming during the exposure (picture above), also first grade stuff. But I was surprised with all the specialization and the amazing pictures that I saw when I googled the term. I guess I have always thought of this kind of techniques as cheap tricks and not something to built a carrier on. But reality is disproving me.

The truth is that I enjoyed very much this shooting and I managed to take a couple of pictures like the ones below that I had in mind for a long time and hadn't managed to capture them, as well as a lot of others that really surprised me, in a very pleasant way :)

Finally I want to thank Hive account@qurator for setting us out on a ICM Photography Quest. It was a great excuse to spend an hour taking pictures with the excitement of a student that tries out something new for the first time! This was a really inspired theme although I am not sure how many people knows what it means :)

There is a couple more days if any of you want to enter!
Hive account@traisto you can do it!
Hive account@sjarvie5 if you have the time it is a really fun way to shoot :)

Let me end this post with a rather unconventional selfie!

All the pictures and the words are mine.

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