Is a bird in a pan worth 2 in a bush?

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Great panning! I like it 'cause the background is very picturesque

Ilike it

I like it because the colors are complementary.

Great shot! (I am not sure about the dark frame)

I'd give you a 7/7 for the title alone. The image is very nice, too.

Hi dear Schoen,

 

excellent comp., colours, cong.

like my jonathan...

 

great photo...

I would call this an action abstract David. The background here becomes the subject for me, while the bird gives it resonance and meaning. Wonderful. Mike.

Thanks for all of your comments. I like this image also and really like the idea of motion blur. Being successful at it is difficult. After my first successful attempt, I went back to the same location and tried it again. No successful images after 100 attempts.

Congrats.

It is great. The title, though, could be improved since it really looks like a "Warp Bird"...

 

I have the same question of another bird-shot of yours, namely whether a tighter crop wouldn't give more "energy" to the bird. In principle I think it might, but here I feel that the "warping" effect could be a bit lost.

 

However, less structures in the warped background might give more relevance to the bird, since it is a bit unfortunate that its colours are the same of that diagonal structure.

 

Did I mention I like that the bird is in cold (a.k.a. static) colours while the background is in warm (a.k.a. dynamic) colours and this contrasts a bit with the usual perception of something warm moving against a cold background ("Why are Ferraris mostly red?")

 

Do you have a shot of the background w/o panning? Just my curiosity!

Here is another panned image.

 

http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=2977863

The environment without the pan.

 

http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=2990139