Blur - not the band

[Grumpy John]

Four images portraying blur. One motion blur, 2 zoom blur and one sculpture photographed through the water wall at the NGV. Very little PP, a lot of crop for the last image.

Images 1 & 4 shot with a Canon 100D and 18-55 kit lens
Images 2 & 3 shot with a Canon 7D and Sigma 17-70 zoom.


f22.0 1/6 sec, ISO 100 55mm



f3.2 0.4 sec. ISO 100



f22.0 0.6 sec. ISO 100



f5.0 1/60 sec. ISO 100 31mm

[Gary H]

It's number 2 for me. Good examples of different ways of producing blur. I bet I took more shots than you when I tried the zoom blur - lost count!

Cheers, Gary

[Grumpy John]

Thanks Gary, good to see you over here.

[Isac]

Lovely stuff John. Of course, you know I'm going to have to try this now

[Grumpy John]

Thanks for the kind words Isac. Blur was the subject of a facebook group I used to belong to, I have some more images to post later.

[Ironwood]

Good one John, heres a couple I prepared earlier...

[Grumpy John]

Good stuff Brad, really like #2 it has that time warp feel to it.

[Ironwood]

Cheers John. Time warp, they could probably make a song about that

[Isac]

Good stuff Ironwood, I might give it a go.

[Ironwood]

Looking forward to seeing what you come up with Isac, it makes a fun project, you can get all different effects with the timing of your zoom, eg try and get a long shutter speed like about 6 seconds, click the shutter, wait 3 seconds then zoom for the remaining 3 seconds, vary your delay and zoom times for different effects. My first two pics are zoom blur, the 3rd is a slow shutter and a fast insect, the last was my feeble attempt at rear curtain flash sync.

[Isac]

You've done well with your shots Ironwood. I just took the dog for a walk and got soaked by a sudden downpour so I'm not taking the camera out for a while. I do some of this with Photoshop which is pretty cool. I'll post one here for you.

[seaslug]

All good but easier to do in Photoshop.

[Grumpy John]

But not as much fun :-)

[Grumpy John]

Here's another image from my Blur catalogue.
It was done by securing the zoom ring of the lens to the tripod and rotating the camera body to obtain a spiral/zoom effect.

Canon 7D, Sigma 17-70
f10.0 1.6 sec. ISO 100

[Ironwood]

That's thinking outside the box John. The effect you produced is awesome 😎 .

[Grumpy John]

Thanks Brad, it would have made a great tie dye t-shirt in the 60's.

[Isac]

Awesome work John. It's great that we have a creative licence with DSLR cameras and it's amazing what people come up with when they experiment.
These 2 are done very quickly in Photoshop but I'll see if I can come up with something out of camera.

[Isac]

Pretty close in the big scheme of things John. Just an email away. Do you use Photoshop currently?

[Grumpy John]

Yes, I use CS6. I'm a very basic user though, I would love to get more deeply in to the program and create creating some really "out there" images.

[Isac]

I'm a CS6 user too John so if you want any tips, just ask. I had CC 2108 for a while but it didn't offer up much new stuff for me so I've gone back to CS6. I use the $79 Affinity too but still in the early stages - it was a lot cheaper than CC 2108 which is about $180 per annum!

[Isac]

Perth City at night with a bit of B&W treatment. 17-50 lens using BULB mode while I zoomed in on the image displayed on the monitor. Too wet to go outdoors!

[Grumpy John]

Very nice Isac. Light trails and zoom blur well done. I'm guessing by the starburst effect you were shooting around f 16 - f22.

[Isac]

Thanks John, yes f:22