When traveling back from Backbarrow, I was playing around with taking photos out of the window (as a passanger!) using the Tv setting. The focus is within the wing mirror and the pavement in the background is blurred because of the 30mph speed we were travelling at. 1/160 is quite fast, but unlike normal panning where I’d be moving my camera to follow the subjects with a slower shutter speed, here the car was moving for me, so my aim was to keep the camera still – but follow the bike in the mirror, shooting it as quick as possible to freeze the moment in time. If the car was stationary at traffic lights the motion blur wouldn’t be there – thus the motion blur being a bi-product of the shot.
I also found it quite interesting trying to capture the landscape whilst traveling at 60mph in the car. I felt the technique summed up the idea of freezing motion and blurring it by using shutter speeds.
Above the shutter speed is fast 1/400 and there’s a substantial amount of detail within the shot considering the speed I was traveling. There is still some motion blur in the foreground but overall you can see the farm building, hedges, hills and clouds. A frozen moment.
This shot does still retain some detail, you can see the differentiation between grass, trees and sky, but there is clear motion blur, as though the world is quite literally passing you by. I particularly like the tree branches stretching over the top half of the image. This effect documents movement.
Slower still loses all detail and you really rely on colours to differentiate the landscape. It looks as though we’re breaking the land speed record here, but all three photos were captured at the same car speed, just different camera shutter speeds.
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