{"id":8064,"date":"2026-06-11T14:46:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T11:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pelingenc.com\/?p=8064"},"modified":"2026-06-11T22:15:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T19:15:24","slug":"painting-with-light-and-color","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pelingenc.com\/en\/painting-with-light-and-color\/","title":{"rendered":"Painting with Light and Color"},"content":{"rendered":"

I love creating a peaceful, calm, and slightly surreal atmosphere in my photographs.<\/p>\n

To achieve this, I usually use the long exposure technique with a minimalist approach.<\/p>\n

In addition to that, I also enjoy shooting photos with a surreal and abstract feel.<\/p>\n

ICM (Intentional Camera Movement) photography is one of the techniques I use for this. By intentionally moving your camera during the exposure, you can make abstract, surreal, twisted, blurry, painterly images.<\/p>\n

Some photographers describe this technique as \u201cpainting with light and color\u201d\u2026<\/p>\n

In my opinion, compositions with vibrant, contrasting colors make the image much more impactful. That\u2019s why my personal favorites are spring and autumn nature landscapes.<\/p>\n

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This technique is actually quite simple, but it took me some time to master managing my hand movements and shutter speed to get the results I wanted. It requires a lot of experimentation. Over time, I managed to find that balance and started getting both beautiful and unique results.<\/p>\n

Today, I\u2019d like to share a few tips about this technique for anyone who\u2019s interested.<\/p>\n

When using this technique, you\u2019ll generally need a shutter speed between \u00bd second and 3 seconds. It\u2019s important to adjust your exposure accordingly to avoid blown-out highlights and color explosions. Since we\u2019re not aiming for sharpness in these photos, you can use the narrowest aperture values in this technique \u2014 the ones I almost never use or recommend in regular landscape photography. If that\u2019s not enough, or if you prefer a wider aperture, you can control the exposure using an ND filter. Don\u2019t forget to keep your ISO low.<\/p>\n

I also recommend focusing manually (set focus first, then switch to manual mode) and turning off your lens\u2019s image stabilization\/vibration reduction.<\/p>\n

Once you\u2019ve set everything up, all that\u2019s left is to move the camera \u2014 vertically, horizontally, diagonally, in circles, or by zooming in and out \u2014 according to your composition.<\/p>\n

Here are a few photos I took using this technique in autumn and spring forest scenes and tulip gardens.<\/p>\n

See you in my next post\u2026<\/p>\n

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I love creating a peaceful, calm, and slightly surreal atmosphere in my photographs. To achieve this, I usually use the long exposure technique with a minimalist approach. In addition to that, I also enjoy shooting photos with a surreal and abstract feel. ICM (Intentional Camera Movement) photography is one of the techniques I use for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8054,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[421],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pelingenc.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pelingenc.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pelingenc.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pelingenc.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pelingenc.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8064"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pelingenc.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8069,"href":"https:\/\/pelingenc.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8064\/revisions\/8069"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pelingenc.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pelingenc.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pelingenc.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pelingenc.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}