Wednesday, 21 February 2007

Give Way

Tonight I wanted to try out something I read about in a magazine recently. Basically it is using the flash to freeze the foreground action, but having a long exposure time to get the motion blur in the background. This pic isn't so good (would be better with more cars, but it was taken at 10:30pm), but it was fun to play. I imagine it would be more affective with both objects moving.




iso 400, f 5, ss 1/2 sec, hand held, 17-85 f4 -5.6 lens

9 comments:

Sara said...

This looks like it would be fun to play around with.

Jan said...

Great minds think alike... :) Actually, my shot isn't exactly like this, but I did play with the motion of car headlights. Fun! TFS

Michelle said...

i haven't heard of this technique before...but i love your shot!

Mom2Drew said...

Great composition here and I really like that sign. So interesting is it not, traveling around looking for sinage?

Jenny said...

Great technique. Would be great with more car headlights but what can you do? Really nice shot.

amazing grace said...

so what does 'give way' mean??? i have never seen a sign like that before....hmmmm.....

sounds like a fun technique!!!

Sue said...

AMn I missed a couple days and I find kids driving and wow! Glad to hear everything is ok :) Love your sign!!

Sarah (spetrie5) said...

Keep playing with the time of day and try it again! I'd love to see how it turns out with more traffic.

Patti said...

Thanks for the comments. I'm definitely going to try this out more. Amazing Grace, Give way signs are just like your Yield signs (I think).