The Movement-Soft portfolio delves into the photographic abstraction that is a result of my camera movement at the time of capture. For this portfolio, I used larger, freer movements of the camera in order to free compositions of photographic detail and to create a softening of form and blending of color. In some images, the motion of the subject suggested the movement pattern for the camera. Throughout this portfolio, I wanted to enliven the painterly attributes of the image.

As photographic images approach black and white, the focus is on texture and tonal range. Color becomes an accent in the composition. My moving camera capture technique was quick and erratic for these images and I worked with various sharpening techniques in developing the image.

In 1987, American vision scientist Irving Biederman theorized that human beings mentally break down images into simple geometric shapes in order to make sense of them. These simple geometric shapes are called geons.
Geons are used to anchor the movement in this portfolio of photographs. The geons are embellished and softened by my moving camera capture. The context of these photographs is not clear and the photographic detail is blurred, but the geons allow the viewer a safe platform, an organizing structure, from which they can investigate the abstraction of the images.

Since a steady camera is not required for my moving camera capture, I am able to photograph in environments where the light is very low. In these low light environments, my camera motion has a painterly and flattening effect. The movement-created textures in the images can be very complex because the slow shutter speed enables more choreography of camera movements. This portfolio is designed to have a theatrical effect, like landscapes illuminated and set on a stage.