Intentional camera movement (ICM) - Part 1

Alrite, In my early days as a photographer, I had some blurry pictures, which was a bit embarassing. Take a look at the below pic, bad lighting is also one of the reason.

Unintentional camera shake f/32 on a f2.8 tokina macro lens shutter speed 10 sec. ISO 100

The smallest aperture, and the below average lighting setup was a give away. The shake on the thumbtack needles is clearly visible.

So what could be done?

I reccommend a wired or wireless remote, with a delayed timing which can reduce camera shake, with an ISO of 400 and above. OR

A tripod with a slider

OR

A good source of bright light

And/Or the plane of focus. The more parallel your camera is to the subject, the lesser the blurriness even at wide apertures i.e. f2.8, f3.2 etc.

However, when I probed further, I realized that camera shake can lead to some interesting results if done intentionally. Let us see the yellow rose below, although shaken looks a bit abstract. But not there yet. Oh! this was handheld.

A picture of a yellow rose - shaken f/13, on a f2.8 Tokina macro lens shutter speed 1/13 sec. ISO 100, Canon 1200D

As opposed to the below pic, for which I used a tripod

macro-of-a-yellow-rose f/11,  on a f2.8 Tokina macro lens shutter speed 1/13 sec. ISO 100, Canon 1200D

Moving on to some intentional camera movements on some flowers, my initial attempt turned out to be the below pictures. I let the shutter speed be slow, close 30 seconds, and simply moved my camera haphazardly over a white and pink gerbera flower. Kinda abstract, some lines... but it's difficult ot make out it's a flower.

Moving on to some other flowers like a red dahlia, the below pic made me a little happier. This image is just of a single flower but looks like 2. Also this abstract if modified well, could be used as a nice background or a screensaver and what have you