How Did She Shoot This?

[wxwax]

http://news.yahoo.com/photos/ss/photos_highlight_fp/im:/050722/ids_photos_sp/r4143365734.jpg;_ylt=ApHxDQYLfmJR1RQsKmd612oFO7gF; _ylu=X3oDMTA5bGcyMWMzBHNlYwNzc25hdg--

I hope this link works. It's of a springboard diver.

My question is, how was this shot executed? Obviously, a slow shutter speed. But, how did the shooter achieve such a clean "circle" of blur? The background suggests the camera was moving vertically. But how did the shooter keep her subject so cleanly centered in the frame? Good hands?

Very cool shot.

[XO-Studios]

http://news.yahoo.com/photos/ss/photos_highlight_fp/im:/050722/ids_photos_sp/r4143365734.jpg;_ylt=ApHxDQYLfmJR1RQsKmd612oFO7gF; _ylu=X3oDMTA5bGcyMWMzBHNlYwNzc25hdg--

I hope this link works. It's of a springboard diver.

My question is, how was this shot executed? Obviously, a slow shutter speed. But, how did the shooter achieve such a clean "circle" of blur? The background suggests the camera was moving vertically. But how did the shooter keep her subject so cleanly centered in the frame? Good hands?

Very cool shot.
Cool shot indeed, and I would assume maybe good hands, or maybe tripod with a video head. I did read it was the three meter board, so the divers are relatively long(time) and fast(movement) TDC as compared to the 10 M tower.

XO,

[JamesJWeg]

http://news.yahoo.com/photos/ss/photos_highlight_fp/im:/050722/ids_photos_sp/r4143365734.jpg;_ylt=ApHxDQYLfmJR1RQsKmd612oFO7gF; _ylu=X3oDMTA5bGcyMWMzBHNlYwNzc25hdg--

I hope this link works. It's of a springboard diver.

My question is, how was this shot executed? Obviously, a slow shutter speed. But, how did the shooter achieve such a clean "circle" of blur? The background suggests the camera was moving vertically. But how did the shooter keep her subject so cleanly centered in the frame? Good hands?

Very cool shot.
That would be my guess. I am finding with the karts that the more I shot the better I can stick to the subject, I would venture that the photog saw that shot in thier mind some time back and has tried many times for it and finnaly hit it right.

James.

[Andy]

http://news.yahoo.com/photos/ss/photos_highlight_fp/im:/050722/ids_photos_sp/r4143365734.jpg;_ylt=ApHxDQYLfmJR1RQsKmd612oFO7gF; _ylu=X3oDMTA5bGcyMWMzBHNlYwNzc25hdg--

I hope this link works. It's of a springboard diver.

My question is, how was this shot executed? Obviously, a slow shutter speed. But, how did the shooter achieve such a clean "circle" of blur? The background suggests the camera was moving vertically. But how did the shooter keep her subject so cleanly centered in the frame? Good hands?

Very cool shot.

photoshop radial blur? of course, it could be done naturally, too... depending on angle of shoot, etc... and of course shutter speed.

http://williams.smugmug.com/photos/32110783-M.jpg

http://williams.smugmug.com/photos/32110711-L.jpg

[wxwax]

Hmmm, your shot is suspiciously similar, Andy. Still, it's a media shot documenting a high profile event. I would have thought that they wouldn't permit altering their photos. :dunno I guess I'm thinking James nailed it, And that she's tried the shot many times and got it right this time.

[Shay Stephens]

When I am at a wedding, and I am going for a particular shot, lets say a motion blur shot during the dancing, and nothing else of interest is going on, I will camp out and take shot after shot until I get what I am looking for, or until something more interesting happens. If there is enough repetition, I can usually get the shot I am after.

So I would guess that this photographer at the diving championship had plenty of time to get this shot looking the way it did, assuming of course it is done in camera and not in post as Andy has demonstrated is possible too.