Today’s class was run as a practical workshop to try out creative in-camera techniques, such as double exposure, zoom burst, rotation burst, intentional camera movement and high dynamic range, introduced by Tim Ewbank at the end of last term. We brought a bric-a-brac collection of props, including a Lensball, to photograph.
My Canon G1X camera has a limited range of clever functions needed for some of the techniques, so I concentrated on intentional camera movements. I set the camera at ISO 100, which gave an exposure of 1 second at f11-16. The results were a more or less abstract set of images, not unlike the accidental ones used in my photo book Endings.
As an exercise, it showed the undoubted benefits of digital photography – lots of shots at no cost and instant review of results. It would be impossible to run a one-and-a-half-hour session like this using film.
