Tuesday, July 8, 2008

Artistic Photo Effects, Better Known As Happy Accidents

Princess Cupcake and I promised everyone some special pictures called "happy accidents" awhile back, and I've finally gotten around to getting some of them together to post here. A "happy accident" in photography is when something unexpected happens, like wind or camera shake, and you get a very pretty "impressionistic" style photo out of it. I love it when this happens,


and it turns out Cupcake is pretty good at cranking them out too. It can be done intentionally by controlling shutter speed and movement, but is such a pleasure when it happens by chance. There was a photographer 5 or 6 years ago whose name escapes me that was featured in a photography magazine for taking these intentionally while driving with a slow shutter speed, and selling them in his gallery as "Dreamscapes". Here are some of Cupcake's she would like to share. (Princess Cupcake has her own watermark!)

Don't miss the Tuesday Edition of Wordless Wednesday in the post directly below this one!

8 comments:

Chris said...

I love those happy accidents!

kk's mommy said...

kk you were just a baby when that pic was taken. you are growing so much!!! i love you and your photos look great!!! mommy is proud of you!!!

KSHIPPYCHIC said...

Me too! Such gorgeous abstract feel, yet almost like the impressionist painters. Thanks for the smile ;)

Sue Cowan said...

I see 'happy accidents' work the same in photography as they do in painting! Love these!

confused said...

:))..I have a memory card full of accidents..I should see if any of them have some artistic value like these..

Shellmo said...

As I love impressionism - i especially liked your photos today! The flowers had a MONET quality!

Cindy said...

Happy accidents- I remember learning about those from the photo.net website. Some of my best pictures have been happy accidents! It looks like Princess Cupcake has an eye for them and what it takes to create one. Some of them do indeed look like impressionistic paintings!

Will said...

"Dreamscape", accident or not is an amazing image. Really beautiful!

I did keep trying to stand on my head to see what it looked like the other way up. But that is probably just weird old me!

And yes, my WW really is as big as it looks!

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