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Well hello folks welcome back to the channel.Today's video we're going to be
looking at some ICM photography. Now I've never done that on the channel before, in fact the
closest I ever got to doing some ICM photography was when I accidentally left the camera on a slow
shutter speed and took a shot and moved the camera and I'll show you that shot now. I was quite
pleased with it so this is why I'm quite happy to try to do some ICM today. Today we're going
to be using the Panasonic fz82, to be honest you could use absolutely any digital camera as long as
you have the ability to control the shutter speed and also the ability to attach a neutral density
filter like this. Today I'm going to be using a variable neutral density filter and there's a
reason for that which I shall explain, and that is because I don't have a four stop or six stop
neutral density filter, which is pretty much the ideal thing to use on a day like today, with the
bright sunshine to make sure that your camera can operate with a slow enough shutter speed.
Recently there have been plenty of videos on ICM but why should you watch this one, well I'm going
to explain how you can do it we're using a simple camera like bridge camera or a compact camera,
as I say as long as you can attach it that ND filter and control the shutter speed doesn't
matter what camera you have to use. You don't have to be Tom Heaton with the latest bit ofkit
or any of the other fancy photographers. In fact one of my favorite photographers uses an older
DSLR camera, that's Andy Gray, he's based up in Northumberland/ Newcastle area. He shoots some
absolutely fantastic ICM images using a DSLR and to be honest I think he's pretty much the go-to
guy if you want to get into ICM photography. Now we're going to have a few different
techniques to enable us to get these shots. Firstly moving the camera up and down,
which is perfect for things like the player here where we've got these vertical struts
especially if you're looking side on and you want extend those further down into the sand,
and the other technique obviously if you're shooting the horizon is to move the camera left
to right like this and that will give you a shot where everything's nice and blurred and smooth.
The third technique is the one that Andy Gray uses which is to remove the camera like this or
like that, and what happens then is you actually are dragging part of the sky down into your image
it gives a nice swirling effect and really gives and really nice creative look to the images. So
I'm going to be demonstrating all three techniques in the photographs. I will let you into a secret I
didn't shoot these images today, I did them a week or ago and then I was Ill with a cold, and you
could tell on the video that it wasn't very well, so I decided to re do all of the b-roll and all of
the pieces to camera so I hope you don't mind. I'm going to show you a whole series of images
using the same techniques and I'll show you what shut speeds are used and again
as I say a variable ND filter on the front, and the camera is set to shutter priority.
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So I hope that has made at least intrigued
about
ICM
photography and its potential. I hope that you've enjoyed the images and if you have
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