Well, I think we run enough stairs to feel charhged for the next assignment.

This new assignment is going to be a bit more technical than the majority of the previous ones.

You need to get the picture of a moving subject in a way that the subject preferably stays as sharp as possible, while the background would naturally blur.

Pedestrians, bicilysts, cars - I'm sure you can find something moving around you. Remember that the primary object needs to stay sharp, or, at least, look sharper than the background.

As always: fresh pictures only. Definitely no PS blur.
For the rest of the basic rules and index please check out this sticky.

Let's pan'n'blur!

This is my 1.st attempt with this camera.
Before I have done it but the photo is not good for here as it is not a fresh one.
It was shot in Vietnam during the hush hour and no filter, no CS2 no tricks.

These are some shots I took this morning.
There was much light as the weather is/was very nice.
But today I have photos with one trick: NDF and CPF
The speed was too slow...
Aperture: f/9.0 ISO: 200 Focal Length: 38mm (guess: 39mm in 35mm) Exposure Time: 0.05s (1/20) Flash: Flash did not fire, compulsory flash mode Exposure Program: Shutter priority

Thanks for spearheading this one for us!
It's a tough one, ain't it?

Originally Posted by Swartzy three pics

Are those all fresh???

I goofed.....eeeek! Got so excited for motion blur shots I went and grabbed them....ok.....going for fresh stuff ...they are kind of cool though, don't ya think?

Originally Posted by Swartzy I goofed.....eeeek! Got so excited for motion blur shots I went and grabbed them....ok.....going for fresh stuff ...they are kind of cool though, don't ya think?

I agree, I simply seemed to remember one or two being posted quite some time ago, hence my question

I shot some 300 photos to get these.
Some, many, I through them away.
I do know it's not very good.
There are more in my site in here or, later in here.
I just post here 6 of them. The advantage of your assignments is that they make us to go on the field, try and try, and read, investigate.
Well, this is the best so far.

Originally Posted by Antonio Correia The advantage of your assignments is that they make us to go on the field, try and try, and read, investigate.

That's exactly the idea:-)

Thanks for going out and trying!

Originally Posted by Nikolai That's exactly the idea:-) Thanks for going out and trying!

My pleasure !

Beautiful pictures, here's mine:

Well I have missed a few assignments but just happened to be at the boat drags yesterday.

How is this?


Aaron

Originally Posted by Manfr3d Beautiful pictures, here's mine:

That's pretty darn cool! Considering how muich the b/g is panned... Very nice!

Originally Posted by anwmn1 Well I have missed a few assignments but just happened to be at the boat drags yesterday. How is this? Aaron

It's a nice shot, but... I don't see any trace of panning and/or b/g blur..

Here's one. Getting close with a wide angle lens really exaggerates the effect. 35mm 1/5 at f/4.


While I was playing with motion blur, here is another shot I got:

Originally Posted by LiquidAir Here's one. Getting close with a wide angle lens really exaggerates the effect. 35mm 1/5 at f/4. While I was playing with motion blur, here is another shot I got:

Interesting...
Thanks for the entries!

I shot this picture today in the late afternoon when the sun was already gone.
I still do not like it very much. I have to try again and I hope I will with the same person at the same time and location.
I don't have time to make some considerations on this photo and about the others I shot on Saturday.
I hope to be able to do so late in the evening.
Thank you for watching.

Originally Posted by Antonio Correia I shot this picture today in the late afternoon when the sun was already gone...

THis assignment is a tough one technically. Don't despair. The more you try it, the more benefitial it'll be for you.
Practice makes perfect:-)

Originally Posted by Nikolai THis assignment is a tough one technically. Don't despair. The more you try it, the more benefitial it'll be for you. Practice makes perfect:-)

Nikolai,
I have been thinking that perhaps you should give some kind of tips, or/and ask the photographers to do so, otherwise these assignments are no more than repositories of photos under a theme. Just an opinion. OK ?

At the 1.st set of pictures I was using the 16-35 and the cars were pretty close to me: about 4 to 5 meters.

The cars were driving slowly but fast enough to fill the viewfinder in a while difficulting the job.

I should be shooting under another angle to get better/acceptable results or in a different position looking at the car as the speed changes with the angle towards the camera, even it travels at constant speed.

On the runner the same problem happened to me.
But I was using the 24-70 instead and the speed involved is quite different. I had only the opportunity to make some 15 shots.
Very few.

In both series I have been using the flash in Slow Syncronization to make a blur in the object.

The focus in the camera was in AI Servo, 200 ISO (I like 200 ISO don't know why ).

I know that shooting an object 25 meters away with a 100 mm or 200 mm is easier than what I am doing. If the object is not coming to us but perpendicular to the axis of the lens.

The question here is to keep the axis of the lens aligned with the object.
This has been often, too often, my problem.
While the camera shoots, I realize that my central point of focus is not on the object anymore but at the back of it, because I concentrate on the composition (?).
Wrong, because I want the object sharp and still, quiet.

I must concentrate on the central point. Period.

And shoot away.

Have to try. I must. I want. I'll do it tomorrow.

No. I was writing this lines and I decided to shoot NOW.

This experience - it doesn't matter colour temperature, etc - proves what I was saying before about the axis.

My hand is still in relation to the camera and - in spite of the low speed - I succeed 1 shot in 8 concentrating on the relative position.

And how about this triple motion blur with reverted lens hood (!) ?


Aperture: f/2.8 ISO: 200 Focal Length: 17mm (guess: 18mm in 35mm) Exposure Time: 0.1666s (1/6) Flash: Flash did not fire, compulsory flash mode Exposure Program: Shutter priority Exposure Bias: -0.333333333333