Creating impressionistic photos in camera is something I love doing. In the old days of film, I used to stack up multiple slides to create montage like impressionist art. It was painstaking and a very uncertain process – a lot simply depended on how the slide, or the color reversal film, would finally come out after processing in a complex machine for 55 mins under strict conditions of temperature, chemical composition and milli-seconds.
And sometimes it goes horribly wrong! Digital camera have made the process cheap, less complicated and more predictable. Combine that with my love for black & white tones, I still keep an eye on any possibility to make creative impressionist art using my digital camera.
This image is done by combining techniques of multiple exposures coupled with camera shake. It was a cold rainy winter evening, which helped make this black & white impressionistic photo. The out of focus rain drops, mildly reflecting the last light of the days created a nice bokeh to add an interesting look.
This picture was done in slightly different way by rotating the camera, similar to a technique I mastered in creating the creative Summer Impressions Fine Art Photography series. This particular black & white image was done pointing into the sun and hence enhancing the contrast of the
I love how creative this above image is. I was shooting black and white the whole day and decided to do this impressionistic one in monochrome too. I was standing across from a long line of pine trees in one of the Memphis back roads when I saw that the sun occasionally peaked through the clouds and streaked across the wall of pines.
This was very experimental and I had used several ND filters to get a high contrast in the trees but I am quite happy how the final picture came out.
PS: These creative black and white impressionistic photos were created in camera and no photo editors were used to manipulate the images. I use Lightroom to process the RAW files and I usually tweak the color temperature and the exposure mainly while using the cloning tool to clean up the sensor dusts and unwanted spots.