Texas Wildflower Blurs/Which is Better?

[Arthur Morris]

Both images were created with the handheld 400mm f/4IS DO lens and the EOS-1D MIV. ISO 100 (with Highlight Tone Priority turned off): 1/8 sec. at f/32. For the image in this pane the camera was panned downward at a relatively slow rate. I tried to time the shutter release so as not to clip any of the flowers top or bottom.

Don''t be shy:: all comments on the individual images are welcome. Or, play the game. :)

[Arthur Morris]

Same as above, only I shook the camera and lens instead of panning the lens downwards.

Which do you like better, the image in Pane 1 or the image in Pane 2, and why?

[denise ippolito]

I like them both but I love pane #2. It reminds me of an impressionist painting and it has a bit more depth. Lovely:)

[Jackie Schuknecht]

Vote for the second but I usually pick the wrong one. Like more defintion in the flowers.

[Indranil Sircar]

I too like the second one better. More definition and depth.

[Christopher Miller]

I like the second one better too because it has more definition. Beautiful colors.

[Dave Woeller]

I pick # 2 for the same reasons as above. I'm also extremely impressed with the skills shown to produce 2 seperate blur shots with the composition so close to each other.

[Mark Fuge]

I'll go against the grain as usual.

I would pick the first one for the pattern of the colors. The second is more blotchy in my view. Not that the secon is wrong, just not the same. But ...

Your image ... your vision.

[Nancy Bell]

I vote for #2. Beautiful colors in both, but #2 has just enough sense of reality to anchor one's thoughts when looking at the image. #1 is just too abstract for me and no real place to settle my eyes.

[Patti Edens]

I would agree with Mark and go with the first one as my favorite. I feel more fluidity, more motion in the first. This is what I like most about flower blur shots - not just the blur, but the smooth motion. Hope this makes sense.

Patti

[Kora Baker]

I like the first best, Artie. I find my eyes flowing smoothly up and down and it's more soothing than the second which jumps my eyes around a bit:).

[Michael Zajac]

Artie, The second one looks like a painting and I vote for that one. Really nice colors and blur to it.

[Cheryl Slechta]

Artie, my heart goes with the second. I agree with Denise - it reminds me of an impressionistic painting which
always makes me happy:)

[Anita Bower]

Soo similar yet so different. The second one has an Impressionist feel to it. :)

[Arthur Morris]

Thanks a ton all. I like them both with an edge to the second one. The funny thing is that I created dozens of the vertical pan blurs and then at the end, made just two shaking the camera. I kept both of them! With the panning images is was much harder to get the flowers where I wanted them. More soon :)

[Myer Bornstein]

I vote for #2 impressionistic and more flower definition