Motion Blurs...
Okay, lets see your examples.
I've been discussing in another post with Bill about using motion blur artistically to help isolate the subject, and so I thought I'd start a thread where we could discuss motion blur.
I personally am a big fan of motion blur and use it extensively in what I do as it speaks movement and tells the story. It also helps remove lousy backgrounds and gives an image dynamic.
So here are a couple of examples...
Technicals:
Canon 1D, 70-200IS f2.8L, f25:1/50, Shutter Priority, ISO200, FL175,
In PS CS, In RAW, added a little warmth and that's it!
Converted, some additional saturation, sharpened and saved for web.
From our trip to Belgium/Spa/Brugge
Canon 1D - 24-70f2.8 F14:1/30, Shutter Priority, ISO200,
I'll dig some bikes and other subject matter up...
Andrew
I've been discussing in another post with Bill about using motion blur artistically to help isolate the subject, and so I thought I'd start a thread where we could discuss motion blur.
I personally am a big fan of motion blur and use it extensively in what I do as it speaks movement and tells the story. It also helps remove lousy backgrounds and gives an image dynamic.
So here are a couple of examples...
Technicals:
Canon 1D, 70-200IS f2.8L, f25:1/50, Shutter Priority, ISO200, FL175,
In PS CS, In RAW, added a little warmth and that's it!
Converted, some additional saturation, sharpened and saved for web.
From our trip to Belgium/Spa/Brugge
Canon 1D - 24-70f2.8 F14:1/30, Shutter Priority, ISO200,
I'll dig some bikes and other subject matter up...
Andrew
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good thread! nice work, too
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I like that! Very cool and very subtle....
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This is one I took on the first night of a photography workshop in Ireland last year. It was in a pub in Dublin and we were pretty excited about the atmosphere the Guiness created, both in the pub and in our minds
The Guiness was the main attraction!
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I took this back on July 4th at the Peachtree Road Race in Atlanta:
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From my Sep04 cruise from NYC to the Bahamas
And another night..
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I've used motion blur myself with race cars. I've been having a lot of trouble with the dirt bikes however, with all the bouncing around they do. It seems like nothing stays put and the picture all looks fuzzy. I think my issue with the dirt bikes is more a matter of timing, finding a point where at least something in the image will stay "predictable" so I can pan with that. Andy mentioned the apex of a jump as an example. His horse and carriage example was quite nice because the torso's of the horses are relatively motionless while the legs are kicking. Maybe I can find a point where the driver's head or torso will be predictable in motion and let the rest blur around it.
Here is some football motion blur that worked out well:
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What is that fan like thing Andy on your picture?
I love the shot. I will look for something blurred tomorrow, it is cribtime here in UK...
I have studied your photograph, and keep wondering what that round thing is. Is it a plastic thing on a window? A fan? A ventilator?
I love all the motion shots posted so far... Hope to see lots more tomorrow
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no, i didn't think to send this one
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it's a ferris wheel, in the dead of winter. i made it go round n round with photoshop
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HEY!!! That's cheating
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hah! see next post.
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here are some of my favorite shots that show movement, one of my favorite things to do with my camera!
the shine
the skaters
in a hurry
the 12:09 hudson line express
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I am thinking of using this as a Christmas Card. I took it on the train, fresh, lol, just for this,:D on Sunday, came Amtrak from Charleston, SC to Alexandria. Got on the train at 5 AM, had my camera out by 6 AM. This woman was entertaining her baby, she was a very willing subject. Note the baby's hand, I love that little hand reaching for his mama.
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This one blurred out a bit too much, but while we're posting these, I might as well add it too. This one was taken 2 weeks ago at the U.S. Australian Football Championship Tournament.
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I want to say to all the people whose photographs appear in this thread... you have all captured single moments of art. I love each of these shots, and you have inspired me to go out and give it a go. Hooray! Yipee!
Sigh. If I only knew you when I was kart racing myself. I have images of me on the kart, but none with that type of motion in them. That photog was using too high a shutter speed on almost every shot I have from him.
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1965 Cobra...
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I really love this thread, and wondered if anyone had any tips for taking these type of photographs????
Any ideas/thoughts/tips appreciated!!!
Cheers
Practice. Practice. Practice.
It's akin to skeet shooting.
For motor-racing/horses here's what I do:
I would suggest simply try shooting cars on a roadway to get the lateral/horizontal panning down pat (the idea being to maintain and follow through a horizontal plane whilst maintaining accuacy with your subject)
For example, with the motoracing shots I may keep a "target/focus" on the door number/roundell and follow through whilst shooting. I do not necessarily press the shutter button more than once or twice as with practice you should be able to simply follow through with your camera and simply "pink" (as in pinking) off a shot where you want it say in either mid arc (if subject is going through a corner) or in mid plane (if subject is running left to right).
Depending on your subject (because your panning has to match the relative "speed" of your subject and maintain the same spot through the sweep to enable either some or all of the subject to remain in focus whilst the background/whatever is blurred) your shutter speed will vary between say 1/60 through 1/250. This depends on whether you have IS or not, or have an incredibly steady hand (I do and have panned as low as 1/10 - see the Cavalia shot I posted).
But once you get this technque down it's incredibly useful and can create images that are so different because other compenents of the image take on a different "look"
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Another one from the archives
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Here's a couple more from last summer's Tour de Georgia Cycling Race
One of the team chase cars
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1600 ISO from the second floor overlooking gymnastics class in a huge bldg.