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Shake Your Booty!!
Shake Your Booty!!
Sammie


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Challenge: Motion Blur II (Advanced Editing IV*)
Camera: Canon EOS-30D
Lens: Canon EF 28-200mm f/3.5-5.6 USM
Location: Salida, Colorado
Date: Jun 24, 2006
Aperture: F5.6
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/60
Galleries: Performance, Action
Date Uploaded: Jun 25, 2006

 Editing: Crop, adjustment levels for levels & curves; shadow highlight tool - adjust midtone contrast; exposure tool - exposure & offset; use magic wand & lasso to select area to dancer's left - apply slight amount of gaussian blur; resize, smart sharpen, sharpen tool on bra area.

Even though I know this photo probably won't score that well, I really like it so decided to enter it. To me, it is exactly what motion blur should do in a photo.

We were waiting on a table outside of our favorite restaurant in Salida when this troupe of belly dancers wandered by with a bongo drum player who was playing for them. There were lots of people around so it was hard to get a good shot but I was pleased with the motion blur on this one as the dancer was shaking her behind. I wish I could have had them stop and pose for me. They were very colorful.

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
07/02/2006 08:37:10 PM
Neat idea!
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 07/02/2006 12:19:42 AM
LOL!

Nicely done. Maybe could've done with being slightly less tightly cropped, to capture more of the motion happening just out of shot on the right. And I am left with the impression that I'm looking at a one-armed booty shaker!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 06/28/2006 10:33:57 AM
cute
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 06/28/2006 08:02:53 AM
Nice movement here.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 06/27/2006 02:20:13 PM
Gotta shake more, methinks. This way it's just sort of sloppy, not really indicative of all the fun the girl is having.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 06/27/2006 01:18:34 AM
the blur tells the story, that's for sure. I wonder if you could crop the top third of this vertically and have a stronger photo. Just a thought -
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 06/26/2006 10:58:53 PM
excellent and true to challenge...great colour here
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 06/26/2006 05:51:43 PM
Hey this meets the challenge and is unique! However, it feels to much like a quick photograph. If this was a dancer performing with an audience I would have loved to see a more artistic crop and maybe more of a story behind it. Say include part of the audience while still trying to keep the focus on the motion?
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