drive-by shooting " Another Roadside Attraction"

The image is the result of shooting with slow shutter speed from a

moving vehicle.

Thanks in advance to anyone who feels inclined to share their impressions.

Another well made experiment... can these be called as experiments anymore sense you already know what you are after and succeed in it always. All those tiny lines there makes a difference, muted colors looks great.

Pleasure to view. Thanks for sharing it.

I love this moving car or not. Each is it's own original. 6/7a Take care

I like your slow shutter 'experiments'. This just proves that one has to try things at times and that there is no telling what one can come up with until one tries.

On this image, the moving vehicles horizontal movement has been slightly mitigated by some vertical camera motion too which has worked well. For me this has given the image a 'textured feel' that people add in post-processing. Compositionally wise, things show good things too. I like the plain road layer, which gives this image a grounding base, and then of course you have the slightly offset main feature with the upper third of the sky. I might miss some of the richness of colour like in your 'Autumn Reflections', but this remains as a piece of good photographic art. best wishes.

I like these experiments and this one is really good. It is interesting how attractive are white trunks in pictures like this when they are slightly blured. If you have time please check my portfolio, I have there some attempts with long exposure. Best regards

Considering the velocity of earth's spin, I would say that you were most fortunate to have such minimal blur. It's a testament to your lightening fast reactions. Your blurred vision is always intriguing, and this provides a ghostly view of our haunted planet.

you can feel the breeze pass the branches

 

di

Interesting outcome from you creative idea. Love it.

Tero hello and thanks. I do think these are still experiments and I like referring to them as such. Over time the parameters are honed and the result becomes more refined but there is still plenty of mystery regarding the exact resulting image. That mystery regarding the final outcome is what makes this fun for me.

 

Cynthia;

 

Thanks the unrepeatability and general chaos element is what appeals to me.

 

Mike;

 

I enjoyed reading your in depth thoughts and impressions, thanks for sharing them. Long lens, hand held, bumpy road, quite a bit of random upward and side to side motion gets thrown into the mix. In this case we seem to have two distinct sets of ' brush strokes '. Trying to compose a well balanced image on the fly can be tricky and lots of fun. It helps to look down the road a ways and anticipate. The muted colours are something I have been experimenting with lately, where that approach will end up eventually I do not know. For the moment it is just further experimentation.

 

Milena;

 

The white trunks seem to register strongly and rapidly on the sensor due to their relative brightness in relationship to the rest of the scene. This does often leave them as focal points in a scene.

I have looked at and commented on a number of your slow shutter photos. I enjoy them very much, as well it is nice to see a different approach and result. The possibilities are endless. Thanks for your comment.

 

David;

 

Considering that the planet is moving at 27660 mph at the equator, the extra 60 mph my car was going should not make that much difference :-)

 

Thankfully, gravity sucks or we'd all go flinging off into space.

 

Dianne;

 

Thanks for that lovely impression.

 

Halina;

 

I am glad you liked this one. Thanks for continuing to drop by and comment on these little experiments.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Your ability to use a camera and light almost as a painter uses a brush is exceptional. I've seen enough examples in your work to convince me this is no mere happenstance. You are mining a rich vein of creativity.

It has the feeling of textile to me, almost as if it's a piece of material stretched and painted or printed. I like how the blurring mixes the colors, again softly and somewhat muted, not super saturated. The Gordon anti-landscape. Curious how or why the sky gets so purple. Works great. Is some red mixing in with the blue of the sky? Tinted car windows? Has a nice effect. Yes, it seems like random motions and it's fascinating how the blur takes on such a linear quality (to me, not as watery as camera blur so often is). Always interesting and creative!

I agree with Fred. I think this captures the world etching and scratching itself against the wind. I'm always thrilled by photos that offer opportunities to "hear" them. I can hear the rustle and crackle.

Jack;

 

Happenstance does play a part however it does so, I like to believe anyway, within the narrow constraints of the parameters I set out. I tend to think of drive-by shooting as improvisational photography employing much the same strategy as free jazz music.

 

 

Fred;

 

The textures are generated by aspects of the image from a previous moment, being dragged on top of the currently registering scene. If the objects being superimposed are closer to the camera such as brush growing in the ditch of the road then the objects will be considerably more stretched and smears. Consequently you can end up with foreground elements ending up as little more than brush ( pun intended ) strokes overlaying the background scene. In answer to your query about the sky colour, I believe the same principle is responsible for the colour shift as well. This was taken in the Autumn so it is quite likely some amount of red was picked up and transferred to the sky.

 

Your Gordon anti-landscape remark brought a smile. I do not set out to be contrary but it does seem that when we follow our own muse, we end up swimming against the tide.

 

Jeff;

 

There is an implied whooosh to this for me.

Gordon. Typically these types of photos are the result of accidents, not knowledgeable experimentation, but it doesn't surprise me coming from you after being a grateful recipient of that knowledge on my forum thread. Right out of the box, in one concise sentence, you correctly identified the source of a problem that had me bewildered and frustrated. As I mentioned to Lex, I thought you might appreciate the irony in the outcome. After having successfully uploaded the "right" image, I decided to submit the "bad" image for critiques and it already has two 7/7 ratings. Maybe I have inadvertently created a new miracle action. Go figure. Anyway, thanks again for your input. Bill

Bill;

 

Glad to help. To be honest my computer skills are quite limited so I was happy to see a situation were I could return the favour so often bestowed upon me here at PN. when I am in need of advice.