Moving Forward....

Jet

Hello Dgrinners..
Had a thought about 'moving forward' and came up with the idea of getting a shot of the front wheel of a bike whilst moving, to get some nice motion blur. What do you think of the concept?
I've put up these two images just as a basic idea, I would use a shorter focal length (I just had my 50mm available) to include more of the bike and maybe a horizon. What do you think?

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pyroPrints.com

It's a good idea, but i would work on the execution. Ideally you want the camera mounted on the bike. That way you can get a good shot of the frame while the wheel and the ground are moving.

VisualXpressions

pyroPrints.com wrote:

It's a good idea, but i would work on the execution. Ideally you want the camera mounted on the bike. That way you can get a good shot of the frame while the wheel and the ground are moving.

There needs to be at least some part of the bike in focus which defines what I'm looking at...

Winston

jziegler

The idea looks good. But I agree, something in the frame needs to be in better focus.

mwgrice

I like the second one, but the angle confuses me a bit. I don't agree that you need it in focus, although I think it's (probably) in focusand that we're seeing all motion blur. I do feel the frame of the bike attached to the wheel subtracts from the picture--it's so large compared to the wheel that I had to look at it a moment to figure out what it was.

HoofClix

This was similar to my concept for one of my LPS entries, Man or Machine I think it was.

I do think that, unless you're going for a totally abstract image, you need to have some part of the image in focus. In this case you could try having someone drive a car beside the bike, you in the back seat shooting out the window, to get a steady shot. That way you wouldn't have to rig up a contraption to mount a camera on the bike...