Several days ago I experimented with Intentional Camera Movement in a public garden that had a profusion of beautiful and varied tulips. I used a hand-held Canon EOS R10 camera with a Canon RF18-150 kit lens. It was a cloudy day with light rain. I set the camera to Aperture priority, ISO 100, f/16 to slow the shutter speed (camera set it to 0.3 second). I focused on one of two tulips that were close to each other and surrounded by green tulip leaves, pressed the shutter button, and zoomed the lens in. It took several attempts to get the image I had visualized.
I imported into Lightroom Classic, cropped, removed the lower tulip, adjusted basic parameters, masked the remaining tulip, shifted the temperature to give a warm glow, and added a vignette.
2 comments posted
Karl Leck
Hi Judith, Nicely done! You did several good photography moves that would make Ansel proud. You had a previsualization and made enough attempts with a trial-and-error technique to fulfill that visualization even with a distracting second tulip in the scene. You developed the image in post to really bring it to life and fulfill the visualization. The slight asymmetry provides a better composition by decentering the zoom point. The composition is also full of active triangles. Karl   Posted: 05/10/2025 21:34:42
Judith Lesnaw
Many thanks Karl.   Posted: 05/11/2025 19:36:47