I have very mixed feelings about these. I do like them both, but...I have a feeling the second one would stand on its own, without the gimmick of camera movement - which we used to call camera blur, or failing to hold the camera steady. :-) I'm not so sure, however, about the first one; it works as an interesting experiment, but I wonder what it would be had you not blurred it.
In any case, you've moved the camera in an interesting way, and have managed to control the movement enough to keep the images from just turning to mush.
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I only have a limited set of shots like this. There is a larger group of more purely abstract images that I continue to work on. Taking these was a relatively dangerous undertaking. I'm riding an electric scooter in Shanghai traffic with my then D700 and a 20mm lens strapped to my right hand with a 1/4sec exposure. Fun times!
Holy crap! In Shanghai? I'm afraid to cross a street there. But seriously I like #2, I think its a really good composition, very interesting motion study. #1, I really don't get, but its probably just me.
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In any case, you've moved the camera in an interesting way, and have managed to control the movement enough to keep the images from just turning to mush.
More?
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