One of my favorite (and most challenging, for me) things in photography is capturing Motion. The idea is actually fairly counterintuitive, because what we perceive as motion is simply a continuous stream of static images. Thus, we need to imply motion in our photographs, and this can be done in countless ways. The most common (although usually not intentionally
) is through blurring, whether by letting your subject move through your scene or panning your camera to follow your subject, or whatever other method you can dream up. On the other end of the spectrum is completely stopping motion. What happens in the split second that our eyes and our cameras at a longer shutter speed might only see as blur? Stopping motion can create some extremely powerful pictures and while there's no evidence of movement directly showing up in the picture, we have to infer it with our minds. Think about the diver, frozen at the peak of his jump. We know in our minds that he'll start falling gracefully towards the water, but through freezing time we can see so much more than what our eyes alone bear witness to.
This month your task is to capture an image of something moving, and artfully show off that motion. Lots of things move, so get creative
Rules: Same as before, no heavy duty editing, including HDR(which would be pretty tough given the prompt). More importantly have fun!
Entries must be submitted by
December 30th at 11:59pm CST. Regrettably I won't be able to access a computer easily between new years eve (afternoon) and the 2nd of January because I will be celebrating the new year and then promptly the next morning driving from TX to Las Vegas and I don't want to leave you guys hanging out waiting for your judgement
I will make my decision late the night of the 30th or morning of the 31st.
The beginning of the next contest will also mark the one year anniversary of the Applenova Photo Challenge! (or whatever it's called) Big round of applause for all the participants.
Some example images:
Stopped Motion
Blurry Motion
Previous Challenge
Oct 2010 - Outside the Frame
Winner:
evan
Runner up: PB PM / GSpotter / Turtle / exkcdude
Creator: BuonRotto
Older Challenges
Sept 2010 - Leading Lines
Winner:
BuonRotto
Runner up: GSpotter, evan
Creator: PB PM
August 2010 - Refractions & Reflections
Winner:
julesstoop
Runner up:PB PM
Creator: Gargoyle
Jul 2010 - Respiration and Photosynthesis
Winner:
Gargoyle
Runner up: Bryson
Creator: billybobsky
Jun 2010 - Self Portrait
Winner:
billybobsky
Runner up: Turtle
Creator: Chinney
May 2010 - The Delicious Dish
Winner:
Chinney
Runner up: AWR
Creator: Brad
Apr 2010 - Spring is in the air
Winner:
Brad
Runner up: billybobsky
Creator: GSpotter
Mar 2010 - Transportation
Winner:
GSpotter
Runner up: not specified
Creator: Dorian Gray
Feb 2010 - Abstract (or, in other words, "What the heck is that?")
Winner:
Dorian Gray
Runner up: not specified
Creator: Chinney
Jan 2010 - Winter (original contest)
Winner:
Chinney
Runner up: julesstoop
Creator: PB PM