Motion Blur

DAY 145

25 MAY 09

What is Project 365 if not an open invitation to experiment?

On a rainy trip home from the mountains, I decided to see what I could do with longer exposures. In a moving vehicle. At night. Great fun had by all!

Okay...maybe not all. But I sure had a bang-up time. After setting the shutter priority at one second, I braced my arms on my knees and held as still as I possibly could. Then I prayed for as few bumps and bounces as possible and hit the shutter release.

I ended up with a lot of missteps, but I thought this shot was a pretty interesting one. Not for nothing, but I think I'll call this experiment a success. :)

Post-processing: ACR tweaks, noise reduction, sharpening, curves adjustments, border addition.

Hi-YA!

DAY 7

07 JAN 09

While watching my children practice "fall downs" in their Hap Ki Do class, I discovered my first real opportunity so far to try something new. Showing movement with blur. Of course I've had blurry pictures in the past, but never on purpose.

I put my DSLR aside, pulled out my Canon PowerShot SX110 IS, and set it on "auto". When composing the shots, I ignored the camera's demand to put the flash up (yes, it does tell me that in bright red capital letters). The result was a lot of shots with great motion blur.

My daughter, the black belt in the foreground, thought this picture looked like a major "butt shot" and is not pleased.