The Street Photographer Who Only Takes Blurry Photos

Today we explore how to use blur to enhance your street photography.

[Music Credits]
♪ Rose (Prod. by Lukrembo)

[Chapters]
00:00 Intro
00:17 Background on Olga Karlovac
01:23 Style Description
02:15 Recreating Olga Karlovac's Style
03:23 Intentional Camera Movement
04:56 POV Street Photography: Environments
05:59 POV Street Photography: Pedestrians
09:34 POV Street Photography: Bonus Pictures
10:03 Conclusion

[biglenslittlelens]

The grain is mostly due to the GRII high contrast black and white preset rather than high ISO.

[Muchtoobizy]

This is a great idea - to take the work of a photographer with a specific unusual style, and explain how they achieved the look. However no matter how much you master the technical side, it requires a long term devotion to a particular style to become as good as Olga. I once spent two months photographing Paris deliberately out of focus (not moving) to get an impressionistic style. Even though I took hundreds of such photos deliberately every day during that time, the number of keepers were relatively few. When it works it's beautiful; but just moving the camera or defocusing the lens is just the beginning.
The message to anyone who wants to try working "outside the box" is find a style you like and then explore it extensively.
I really enjoyed the video. Thank you.

[pbziegler]

I bought the trilogy. She is quite amazing. We love the books. The thing is, her images are very evocative and emotionally charged. They aren't just ICM photos for the sake of getting blurry photos. Anyone can take blurry photos. If you look at her work you will see creative genius at work.

[laurencegoldman]

It's NOT ABOUT HAVING A DISTINCT STYLE! It's about having a honed visual interest (love). The style takes care of itself. Find out what you actually like. See what opens the door.

[SonChae]

Definitely one if not the best photography channel

[shaileshcalib]

This is the most underrated photography channel . absolutely amazing content, Keep it up . Subscribed !!

[dreamscuba]

I really enjoyed this. I love photographs that give me a feel like a painting. I have experimented with some long exposure/blurry photography in the past, but this artist and her work really captured me... I love it. It speaks to me so much more than the ever so sharp and accurate photographs we see and take every where. Thank you for sharing this.

[juuubart]

Found your channel while looking around for photography ideas. I've been a hobbyist for 5 years now and only just found out about ICM photography. Olga's work is incredible, wow. Thanks for covering it!

[jigggro]

Love it. After my camera got stolen in an armed burglary, I had totally left learning. Now I feel like starting again. Thank you.

[KGeorge-]

Just when I think I've seen the best videos for my photo journey, one like this comes along and re-sets my thinking! AND with a GR8... Love it! Go go Olga!

[-grey]

This is cool, and shows that often the difference between art and just doing a thing is scale. If you can commit to a style or aesthetic large enough, or long enough, it shows your intentionality. The method becomes the art rather than the images themselves.

[CarmineGroe]

Great video! Olga's work is beautiful. Such an underrated effect and wonderfully refreshing when you consider how so much of this gear centric industry is focussed on "sharpness" as a predominant factor for quality photography. Thanks for posting!

[reusedisland]

WOW! What a great teaching ‘finding your style and committing to it’. A fascinating story, and excellent video. Olga’s work is very appealing, and your practical demo is very engaging. Thank you very much 👍.

[xavidub]

This is the best photography channel on YouTube. Thank you

[incognito]

This is truly fine art photography. It is what is lost in today’s ‘ digital’ and quick iPads photos people are using today.

[johnhearn]

Excellent video. Thank you for bringing Olga Karlovac's work to my attention. I love it. It's amazing what can be achieved with a point and shoot camera and controlled ICM.

[vincentgaliano]

She is amazing, I never heard of her before, thank you for the discovery. Now i need to find money to buy her books !!

[coachtomas]

Sharpness is the last thing I think of when I take a photo. It seems the higher than megapixel count goes the more people forget the art of photography itself. I draw more than take photos and even in that media it is more about the work as a whole rather than just making it "clean" or "neat". I want to have fun in the process and show a little of myself in my work.

[dancejam]

Thanks for introducing me to photographers and photographic styles I knew nothing about. Persistence and vision paid off. I agree that the body of work helps sell the style even though each photo has interest in its own right.

[HogbergPhotography]

It took me 15 years to even start getting over the stupid concept of "sharpness". Its just so stupid! It does not matter how sharp an image is if it is not an interesting photograph! These days I focus on taking interesting images instead. I see so many young photographers hung up on sharpness, this just stops them from developing a good eye for photography. Its just sad.