Night Swimmer

This photo was taken with a 2.5s exposure, just after dusk. Any

suggestions for improvement? What do you think of the motion blur in

the swimmer?

I like the idea but that water looks horrible - it looks like the guy is swimming in a sewage treatment tank! I think the composure is nice with the water in the background. Maybe try again with tungsten balance if you are able to do that in that camera to make the water more blue?

The lighting exaggerates it a bit, but the pool really does have a wild mixture of colours on the bottom of it - years of flaking blue and green paints, lane markings, debris washed over the wall from the ocean, leaves blown in, etc. I left the colour balance as is to highlight it.

 

These kinds of open-air rock pools line the NSW South Coast. It's perfectly healthy to swim in, just not spotless like chemically-bombarded indoor pools. It's more like swimming in the ocean than in a pool.

 

It probably revives childhood memories only for coastal-town Aussie kids, and repulses everyone else!

I like the motion blur, but since it was such a long exposure, the swimmer must have been in between strokes and then completed a full stroke as I see two heads, one lodged in the butt of the other body. I think if you tried a few different pics from the same position you might have found a more interesting blur out of your swimmer. Either that, or have an even longer exposure so stretches out over more space in the pool.

 

I like the composition though and the unique colours are interesting.

you might also want to try using the flash with a long exposure.. you'll get the colors and the blur, but also a clearer image of the swimmer.

blue&orange colors, I like it!