This is another image captured yesterday morning. With little light and lots of cranes, I decided to try my hand at some blurs. The horizontal streaks on the bottom of the image are cranes in the far bg flying in the opposite direction. I was tempted to clone them out, but would like to get some opinions on them. I converted to BW, as the colors didn't add anything to the image, IMO.
I am not often a fan of blurs but I do like this one, I am not artistic so don't take my comments to heart. I like the ">" formation but I get the impression there is a little too much empty space maybe say a crop of 1.5 cm from the top about 2cm from the bottom and 1cm from the right.
I particularly like the almost sharp head of the crane almost centrally placed, this leaves the viewer in no doubt as to what they are looking at.
I was composing my response before I saw Jonathan's. It was to read "I'm not often a fan of blurs but I like this one." Great minds think alike.
The degree of blur is just right for me, and the vee formation works nicely. I'd be tempted to evict the upper left crane which is partially out of the frame, remove the streaks at the bottom, and crop up a bit from the bottom. Just my personal taste. And btw the black and white works well for me too. Well done.
Here's another one who isn't big on blurs, but I do like this!
I think the overlap of some of the leading group of three cranes takes away a little from the image. But you have done well making a neat image with what you had available.
A crane blur
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