Black-eyed Susans Blurred

[Harold Davis]

i know this was the theme like a year ago, but dont sue me. i'm normally slow to play the games. found these beauties locally at the American Orchid Society and they begged me to play with them. hope you like it. probably my favorite from the day. really no post processing. pretty much straight out of the camera.

thanks for looking. comments and critiques much appreciated.

[denise ippolito]

One of my all-time favorites of yours Harold. Really nice in-camera blur. Colors and pattern are very,very nice.

[Harold Davis]

thanks, neecy!! i thought you would.

[Patti Edens]

I like it too! Very cool that you can still tell they are Black-eyed Susans.

[Dave Phillips]

nice visual Harold....for my taste a bit off the bottom would strengthen it a bit

[Chris Starbuck]

Harold,
I like this. I almost always try to figure out why I like a particular image, because I think that helps me to see better when I'm out with my camera. Often it's some formal aspect of the image design (composition, lines, shapes, textures, etc). In this case I think it's the subconcious emotional response to a well-done impressionistic rendering. It immediately invokes pleasant memories of warm summer afternoons spent in similar fields of flowers.

For those of us aspiring to similar results, can you share the shutter speed you used, and describe the camera movement?

[Harold Davis]

chris, when i get back to my home computer, i will be glad to get the exif data for you.

thanks for the comments everyone.

[Fabs Forns]

Very sweet abstract, I really like it, son :)

[Harold Davis]

chris, sorry it took so long. i forgot. the shutter speed was 1/4s. guessing at that time i was moving the camera in a diagonal direction.

thanks again!

[Chris Starbuck]

Thanks, Harold!