Impressions across Somes Sound

[Andrea B.]

Looking across Somes Sound from the eastern shore of Southwest Harbor on Mount Desert Island, Maine, USA, July 2017.

This is funny -->> I just now realized that the "dots" in the first impression are not sea birds, they are dust bunnies. ....Wait....now I'm not so sure....No, they are dust bunnies. Took me a second to decide if dust bunnies would move during these multiple exposures.
Oh well. 
I'll go trudge thru the removal of the grunge.
 

[Bjørn Rørslett]

The second one stands a little above the others, all are good though. Dust bunnies or not. Perhaps one can consider them as a kind of virtual feathered things??

[Akira]

I like your experiments with the combinations of various techniques and love the color.

To me, #3 looks also like an image from a troubled sensor...

[Jakov Minić]

Oh, I like them blurry!

[Akira]

Oh, I like them blurry!

Oh, I could tell you would. 

[Andrea B.]

Thanks for stopping by everyone.

....virtual feathered things
That is very poetic!

Oh, I like them blurry!
Especially for you, Jakov!

To me, #3 looks also like an image from a troubled sensor...
Made me laugh. It does indeed suggest a bad frame!

[Andrea B.]

You might enjoy seeing one of the originals. It is quite awful. But that D810 has MASSIVE amounts of "headroom" allowing for the dialing back of near-blown or blown highlights to true colors. (Later pushed by me, of course, in these images.) The square crop for the first one was made from this attachment. There are many different directions one could take such an abstraction. I wanted to go for color (obviously!) in the island/ocean impression.

[HCS]

Oh, I like them blurry!

I immediately thought: Jakovic-style!

I like them very much Andrea, but my preference is the first one. Third one not so much, the brighter rectangle doesn't really attract me.

[Andrea B.]

Thank you, Hans for stopping by.
The first one is my favorite also. I purposefully cut the left to keep the darker upper right cloud in the upper right for "dynamic tension". Or you could just call it off balance.  I liked that the sky over the island looks rather ocean-like in these motion multiple exposures. I had fun with them.

[John Geerts]

Interesting results Andrea.  Like especially the second one as it suggests some movement.

[Andrea B.]

Thanks, John.
There were about 30 failures for each result which showed promise! We could not have worked like this in film days without a lot of lost film until we learned what would create a good motion-like effect in the multiple exposure. Now, the question is, can I repeat this in the future?   

[Les Olson]

Would you be offended if I said I like the original version best?

[armando_m]

Great results

I guess the camera was traveling when this were taken ?

[Andrea B.]

Would you be offended if I said I like the original version best?
Not at all! The original has a certain interest that I could have worked up a bit. 
Some days we go in one direction, other days somewhere else with our interpretations.

I guess the camera was traveling when this were taken ?
Yes. Moving horizontally with a bit of a wobble while multiple exposure engaged for a 3-frame stack. I've gotten some quite interesting results with such maneuvers. Especially in places with strong visual appeal like Times Square, NYC. Sometimes I move the cam while shooting, sometimes in between shots. It's always partly experimental and partly planned. You do have to think about placement and motion type. I had some posts with  motion MEs on older forums, all long since lost I think. (Still on my disks, of course.) I didn't learn this from anyone but was influenced by some of Bjørn's work. I've seen such work by other folks, too. Try it, its' really fun!

[JohnBrew]

Andrea, they are all attractive! I prefer #1 - living here on the beach it just puts me in the mood.

Added: I have been trying a bit to get something like you have posted here, but ICM just seems to elude me, so congrats.