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drivin_me_nuts said:
5 makes me want to physically throw up..blurred image and bend create an awkward image for the brain to resolve. Like the wheel shot (you'll be really hacked off if you curb them!) and the last one is nicely composed
Er, thanks for your 'constructive' comment.... but I can assure you the front of #5 is sharp as a tack 
k all!trackdemon said:
drivin_me_nuts said:
5 makes me want to physically throw up..blurred image and bend create an awkward image for the brain to resolve. Like the wheel shot (you'll be really hacked off if you curb them!) and the last one is nicely composed
Er, thanks for your 'constructive' comment.... but I can assure you the front of #5 is sharp as a tack It's because the car is indeed stationary and sharp my brain is trying to resolve the idea of blurred motion and there is no fixed frame of reference - i.e why is the car stationary - there should be some sense of movement from the car because the landscape is blury. The effect is further compounded because the landscape takes up such a large proportion of the picture that it becomes the dominant factor - the car is incidental to the blurred landscape and out of context with what my brain perceives as being the 'normal' relationship between car and landscape...
I am not critising your picture, what I was trying to explain is an interesting spatial effect of the context of motion with stationary objects that can create challenging photographs. Of all the shots here this is the one that I feel to be different and actually is challenging for me to look at and for that reason is the only one that I would actively file away in my conscious memory - because it caused the reaction that I tried to explain.
I hope that is more constructive....
To clarify, the car isn't stationary it is moving from left to right across the frame - the shot was panned; I'm not sure how it could be conceived as anything else.
This style of shot is very common in most auto mags; for example here is an example from EVO magazine a few months back:
My shot is composed slightly differently - I shot from lower down for a more dramatic effect & to include a little sky, also I've included a bit more of the foreground & background because it adds to the sense of motion in the shot, as well as describing the bend the car was navigating at the time.
I can only assume all these types of shots trouble you if mine does
This style of shot is very common in most auto mags; for example here is an example from EVO magazine a few months back:
My shot is composed slightly differently - I shot from lower down for a more dramatic effect & to include a little sky, also I've included a bit more of the foreground & background because it adds to the sense of motion in the shot, as well as describing the bend the car was navigating at the time.
I can only assume all these types of shots trouble you if mine does
trackdemon said:
To clarify, the car isn't stationary it is moving from left to right across the frame - the shot was panned; I'm not sure how it could be conceived as anything else.
This style of shot is very common in most auto mags; for example here is an example from EVO magazine a few months back:
My shot is composed slightly differently - I shot from lower down for a more dramatic effect & to include a little sky, also I've included a bit more of the foreground & background because it adds to the sense of motion in the shot, as well as describing the bend the car was navigating at the time.
I can only assume all these types of shots trouble you if mine does
...no - not at all. I have been playing with your pickie with a couple of L frames and if I take away the tree from the RHS then that feeling goes away. There is the sense of motion and the shot looks to me more composed... Interesting that it is actually the fuzzy tree on the RHS that is causing the feeling.. I have no idea why that is, I am sure someone else can explain the eye/brain concept thang in more detail. This style of shot is very common in most auto mags; for example here is an example from EVO magazine a few months back:
My shot is composed slightly differently - I shot from lower down for a more dramatic effect & to include a little sky, also I've included a bit more of the foreground & background because it adds to the sense of motion in the shot, as well as describing the bend the car was navigating at the time.
I can only assume all these types of shots trouble you if mine does
drivin_me_nuts said:
trackdemon said:
To clarify, the car isn't stationary it is moving from left to right across the frame - the shot was panned; I'm not sure how it could be conceived as anything else.
This style of shot is very common in most auto mags; for example here is an example from EVO magazine a few months back:
My shot is composed slightly differently - I shot from lower down for a more dramatic effect & to include a little sky, also I've included a bit more of the foreground & background because it adds to the sense of motion in the shot, as well as describing the bend the car was navigating at the time.
I can only assume all these types of shots trouble you if mine does
...no - not at all. I have been playing with your pickie with a couple of L frames and if I take away the tree from the RHS then that feeling goes away. There is the sense of motion and the shot looks to me more composed... Interesting that it is actually the fuzzy tree on the RHS that is causing the feeling.. I have no idea why that is, I am sure someone else can explain the eye/brain concept thang in more detail. This style of shot is very common in most auto mags; for example here is an example from EVO magazine a few months back:
My shot is composed slightly differently - I shot from lower down for a more dramatic effect & to include a little sky, also I've included a bit more of the foreground & background because it adds to the sense of motion in the shot, as well as describing the bend the car was navigating at the time.
I can only assume all these types of shots trouble you if mine does
_dobbo_ said:
I've looked at these a few times recently but my monitor was out of whack and I was too lazy to re-calibrate it. Now that I have these look great. Have you used HDR or some layering to achieve an HDR result on some of these?
No HDR - I hate it! The light at the end of the shoot was lovely #7 onwards....... only layering is blending a sky exposure & car exposure..... in effect same as using an ND grad but with perhaps a little more control.Wyvern971 said:
On your panning shots the car will be moving out of frame, ideally the empty space should be in front of the car not behind it, giving it somewhere to move in the frame rather whan driving out of it.
in general though a nice set
Not a rule as such, and if you flick through some old copies of EVO etc it won't take long to find a similar shot..... The shot in question conveys the subject moving quickly across the frame, whilst showing the corner the car has just traversed; this was my intention. If that divides opinion, so be it in general though a nice set
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