Assignment 3, image 1 – blurs a stationary subject
The Madrid skyline is punctuated by 4 tall buildings. Personally, I think they mar the face of the city, but they do make for interesting subjects. At times.
Strangely, I tried a few hundred shots trying to get a vertical blur on the buildings. It was quite by mistake that I realized the lines on the buildings were actually yelling for a horizontal blur.
Glad I tried that version too.
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Great effect! I think you’ve softened their impact on the urban skyline 🙂 While you can modify scenes quite dramatically, it’s often effective to work with the lines and shapes that are already there; I can see why you might prefer this to going against the grain.
Thanks Alex Lapidus… this has been a huge learning. Quite a lightbulb moment for me when I switched to horizontal instead of vertical 😀
I can see why you went with the horizontal, I think, without even seeing the vertical version …. this is wonderful. 🙂 (If these buildings aren’t pleasing in real life … they definitely are, here. 🙂
You are giving a very soft image of modernity! Lovely colours!
Ha ha … thank you so much k phelps… glad I made them likable 🙂
It’s amazing how we can surprise ourselves by just trying something slightly different 🙂
That’s so kind of you, Françoise Dhulesia 🙂 I was trying for a different take from the regular 4 vertical structures. Glad you enjoy it.
Great image! The skyscrapers and the sky are melting into each other…
Lucille Galleli
Really great horizontal panning as it brings out the stacks of floors in the building in a most unusual way.
Great panning on the eyesores of the sky. You made them beautiful.
Margrit Schwarz … I wish they would really do so. Ha ha..
Glad you like it Jane Levine… Quite a duh moment for me after a few score frustrating vertical attempts 😉
Love that description Cheryl Day… Lol.. thanks much for commenting 😉
This turned out so nicely!
Awesome. I think I’d frame this one.
It looks like you’ve panned on a slight diagonal which works really well with the perspective, leading the eye to the vanishing point. I keep looking at the building at the bottom. It adds an anchor point and a perspective, and blue and red complement each other. Without it the image is cleaner but more abstract. What made you include the building?
great colours. A little bit cubist
Just great.
Don’t you just love it when a scene speaks to you, you pay attention and it works?? You have made Madrid’s skyline beautiful!! First prize!! º\o/º
Thanks much, Mary Presson Roberts 🙂
Cathy Custer Donohoue wow… that’s such a big compliment. Thank you much.
Edward Norton.. I like how you have such a different take on it. I kept the building to preserve the ratio of the image while cropping. I didn’t feel it added much to the image per se, but I should get rid of it and see where this photo goes 🙂
Thank you so much for your thoughful, kind and comprehensive comments. You really take time to delve into the image and text and provide your opinion. So deeply humbled and honoured by the time you spend. Thank you again.
Glad you agree Birka Wiedmaier… Love how this image turned out.
Love that take on it Jenn Camforth… thanks for dropping by.
Thanks much, Sonali Dalal
ha ha ha ….. that’s so sweet of you, Carmen Mandich… I’m so glad you enjoyed this humble attempt of mine at capturing these eyesores 🙂
Does it mean that I could come shoot your city too 😛
Absolutely Lucille Galleli!! I think that I’m suffering from focusing on the negative side. Maybe I need to blur it like you!! :DD
That’s such a brilliant idea Carmen Mandich.. sometimes we just look too closely! 😀 Big hugs, chin up!
Lucille Galleli º\o/º
wonderful urban image !
Superb work, now the very solid matter seems to light and flying. Just great Lucille Galleli
Lovely effect and the shape and color is so pleasing.
Horizontal and ever so slight diagonal movement does great justice to these buildings. Well done Lucille Galleli
Thanks a bunch Lisa s 😀
Thanks a ton, Heiko Mahr… I feel so too. Now instead of being boring modern buildings, it reminds me of a science fiction movie 😛
So glad you like it Marsha Leigh.. .thank you.
Delighted that you concur Stephanie Cassiday-Krueger… thank you so much 😀
Lucille Galleli now I’m humbled. There was a time when I would have written “I would have cropped out the red building” which isn’t helpful, trashes your vision and doesn’t help build a relationship between the artist and the viewer. So if I see an image and that thought goes through my head then instead, I question … why was it included, what was the photographers intent, does it add or subtract etc. I also think that when people describe what they see, regardless of their own abilities, helps both people develop. I find your photos intriguing, you embrace simplicity, which is a brave thing to do.
I’m glad you learned to build a relationship between artist and viewer Edward Norton. I normally shy away from giving a critique, but here’s a lesson I can learn from you.
Thank you. Always.
Very nice horizontal blur. A feeling of flying low thru a beautiful day in the city ☺
ha ha … love the way you put it Sharon Woodward… thanks much.