CHAT "MOTION" Weekend Competitiion 12th/13th December 2009

[jinky]

Flake has not put it in the entries and I think just put it in the chat thread for comment as she stated but as she explained that the person is not a photographer and unlikely to sign up your point is correct Bob

[bsmith]

Sorry for the confusion, I see another tree in the entries thread, is that work by flake or a friend.

As expected mine is a sport shot, with Christmas on the way I've been very busy with other things so have to use one from the game on Saturday.

Bob

[ronbpix]

The rains ruined my chances of entering this one. Looking forward for the next competition.

[HinFrance]

Christmas preparations did for me - no time at all to take pictures this weekend. So I will just be voting on this one.

I guess my weekend was busy too - and with the children's play on Sunday, time was just not available, so I have kept to the rushed entry squeezed in Saturday night; Two motions configuring a third, if you have an imagination like my family who chose the pictures they prefered

So rushed Dyslexia ruled - I will change the spelling on the image later!!!!! Arrgh!!!!!!

[HinFrance]

Well, I managed to get a vote in anyway.

[Semaj]

Originally Posted by HinFrance

Well, I managed to get a vote in anyway.

Same here got back too late from Ansty but well done all who entered.

[bsmith]

Its neck and neck just now, and I say the person that posted first wins the comp as they got their act together first, its only fair to split a tie that way.

Bob

Originally Posted by bsmith

Its neck and neck just now, and I say the person that posted first wins the comp as they got their act together first, its only fair to split a tie that way.

Bob

HM Swan - An interesting panned shot with the soft mute pastel shades adding to the captured motion. I fully appreciate the difficult challenge in the successful panning of wildlife, though in my opinion, the composition is not as pleasing as it could become (through editing and post processing). By seeing, a little more of the area above the swan, a crop to remove the shadow on the right hand side (which would not distract from the overall spacious feel to the image) and finally some airbrush work to weaken / lighten the dark slashes in the top of the image; towards emphasising the impact of the movement within the swan itself. This shot has potential to become a more exciting image.

Roundabout. - In general this is a nice image (all be it, the expected view / set up, for such a location) although the lights cutting across the whole image, tend to distract or mask the flow of any 'roundabout' effects captured. And to get a more exciting image involves a lot of patience and or perhaps a different angle, unusual view point.

To my choice for this week, The Motions of Dog Dancing. I was drawn by the framing and simplicity of this shot, with the back lit jeans cleverly adding to the lovely sense of playfulness. While I appreciate the 'in lens light cast' and fringing may detract to spoil the image, with on screen magnification the apparent excessive noise, almost to the point of Seurat's art in Pointism (or in this case, dare I say Pixelism to describe the effect) is seemingly artistically attractive to the overall composition. For me, this picture emphasises how position and lighting can propel a vibrant sense of movement, almost lifting the subject or subjects, thereby providing an added depth and dimensional freedom.

As a foot note, perhaps I'm mentally wired differently, but I seem to see 'movement mix-up' in some zoom burst photography; as the zooming often works to suggest motions going one way, while subjects or objects are going in an opposing direction, or moving in a different gear and completely out of sync, making the image appear awkward or unbalanced in some way. Having said that, casting Santa in a 'time warp effect' has a sense of sensibility that is refreshingly honest.

Congratulations to Bob with his winning entry, in capturing both play and tactical motion in one shot, and many thanks to those who voted and enjoyed my twist upon the many aspects in motion.

I like the idea of joint winners Bob.

[jinky]

One of you might still win outright yet Andy. Still 11 minutes left to cast votes.

Later - yes that`s a joint win unless determined otherwise by whoever. The third joint win in the last 5 weeks. Probably caused by relatively low voting numbers and a spread of good entries.
Nice to see such a spread of votes for everyone`s attempts to capture motion this weekend.
Well done Andy and Bob for 2 fine shots.

Above and below reviews by me:

Flake - Ghost of Christmas...
Brave attempt to get a time lapse in one image but just did not work at all for me. I can see the change from the stick in the middle to branches on in the fake tree but there are other distractions like door edge, picture frame, radiator etc that are too distracting for me though I see you are trying to show them maybe as constants? Anyway - really hard to do without video as you said in chat thread but you had a go.

Chriscraft - Ghost Fish
Couldn`t click to a bigger picture so based on the shot here.I`m sure it`s just your attempt at showing motion but does that fish tank need a good cleaning out :-). Murky waters disguise the movement but I like the trail from the one on the left which works. Other than that dominated a bit too much by rock for me and the black and white one does not seem to move - must be modelling itself on the Newcastle United defence last season :-)
Liked a lot of the images this week - the real sense of movement in Del`s and Ogga`s got my vote) with the flash technique. Also liked the winners obs and buggslife`s swan and thought Phantom`s cyclist pan would have been a great one if it had not been going oout of the frame and away.
Always love the variety of thought that goes on in this time challenge and just wished my panning attempts at the santa dash had worked better. For Santa Dash read very slow leisurely walk in the main which does not allow for capturing a sense of movement.