On the Move
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Nice blurring of the train while everything elses is sharp. Must have taken some good timing as well.
AlanLichty
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Is this a blend? The lack of motion in the blooms in the foreground triggers this question.
The train is blurred because it's pulling into the station. Nothing else including the people are not blurred because I was holding the camera stationary.
Thanks Ben. I was shooting the people at the station, and I saw the Metro train coming up so I quickly knocked the shutter speed down hoping I could hold it still while still catching some motion from the train as it pulled into the station.
AlanLichty
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I was surprised there was no wind from the train moving the flowers.
The flowers are below it and the train is moving right to left, so as the train would actually pass by it there would be movement in the flowers, but not before.
Here are the 3 images I got SOOC. I never moved my aim, simply the train was passing in front of me. You can see where I borrowed a slight bit from #2 as I extended the canvas to the right on #1 and then later cropped some of the left off of it. In #3, you can see when the train is actually going past the flowers there is movement in the flowers. But in both #1 and 2 you don't see flower movement because the train is just coming to them.
If you look close on the right side you can see where a couple of sets of flowers got duplicated, though I cloned a few flowers out so that it wasn't too obvious. But as you can see from all 3 frames, the movement of the train is because I had a stationary aim, and was shooting at a slow shutter speed as mentioned (1/20th) while the train did move in front of me.
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Joe Colozzo
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great effect, Now lets see the one where the train is still and the BG is in motion! 