Male Chestnut Teals in motion blur glide.
D300 200-400+1.4tc
ISO 400, f/5.6, 1/125s@450 Pano crop + a lot of H/S in CS3
Does this work for anyone, what do others think?
I quite like the abstract effect.
C & C most welcome
Cheers
Marc
Motion blur attempt
Male Chestnut Teals in motion blur glide.
D300 200-400+1.4tc
ISO 400, f/5.6, 1/125s@450 Pano crop + a lot of H/S in CS3
Does this work for anyone, what do others think?
I quite like the abstract effect.
C & C most welcome
Cheers
Marc
Last edited by Marc Mol; 01-22-2009 at 11:04 PM.
Hi Marc, I love the colors here and I think the blur works but would like to see more room on the right for the birds to fly into. I haven't tried "intentional" blurs but I have lots of them resulting from "failure to acquire" focus!
Too true! LOLOriginally Posted by Katie Rupp
Hi Marc, I agree w/ Katie on the extra room out front-and you do have great colors! And it does have an abstract feel.
Hi Marc - great colours and love the feel - more room on the right for the bird to fly in to as well.
Very nice Marc. I like the effect and also like the idea of more room on right. The bird on the right really makes it for me, looks more like a hummer than a teal. Good One. Dave
Hi Folks:
A little early morning play :D
The only way I could think of adding more space to fly into.
Uncle Gus
Excellent Gus, thanks.
Hi Marc,
A very nice motion blur,
I agree with the rest of your brothers and sister of BPN...:) I like uncle Gus' repost...well done Uncle...keep up the good work Marc...:cool:
Thats what I was thinking getting the birds closer together :)
With blurs do have extra room around the birds since they need it for showing motion. Its good to select an AF point other than the center for moving the birds in frame !! Keep at sure like those blurs !!!
Marc,
Stupendous colors!! Gus's re-post did the trick by getting the birds closer.
My resubmission with some canvas added.
Last edited by Marc Mol; 01-23-2009 at 06:07 PM.
Super, Marc, that did the trick . . .
Wll done, nice PS work.
Uncle Gus
Beautiful colours Marc, and I like your repost with more canvas, and the sense of conveyed motion in this pic. Very pretty.
MY TAKE
I really like the colors, however although it could be due to my own personal preferences, I see problems with the image 1) about motion blur in flight images: I love motion blur showing wing movement or the background streaking by, but unless there are at least one element in sharp focus, such as the body and head of the bird, I think it may be a nice abstract image(I guess) but not really a successful image otherwise. 2)Motion blur of a background generally has a streaky horizontal nature, and in this image the background is more wavelike than streaky, and it is also not horizontal. I think what we are seeing is not motion blur but an out of focus background, and that 1/125sec was too fast to achieve the desired effect. 3) Motion blur images showing a background streaking by are extraordinarily difficult to achieve (as opposed to wing blur which isn't near as difficult). The camera must precisely track the subject and capture it in focus at an unusually slow shutter speed. Not only this, but the depth of field must be great enough to show the background to be other than completely out of focus. Not that it can't be done, I certainly can be, but requires a high degree of skill. In PS and other imaging programs the motion blur
effects are probably more "true to life" than many other effects, and isolating a background and applying a motion blur to it is relatively easy. ~BILL
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