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Challenge: Motion Panning II (Basic Editing)
Collection: studio
Camera: Canon EOS-10D
Lens: Sigma 105mm f/2.8 EX DG Macro for Canon
Location: VT - usa
Date: Jan 16, 2007
ISO: 200
Date Uploaded: Jan 16, 2007

 we'll see how this goes over. i'm actually not as fast as a speeding bullet. but i might be smarter than one ;}

i sort of wish this was under advanced editing. my original plan with this effort was to create a rig to mount onto the top of the camera with the bullet fixed in front of the lens. i was then going to find some colorful and contrasty places and spin around as the image was captured. but i would have had to clone out the support - so i came up with an alternative plan.

i tried to create the illusion of high speed photography. everything in the image is actually sitting quite still.

i set a piece of plexi-glass on a couple boxes with a pretty bright flourescent shop lamp about 2 inches underneath. some colorful paper is on top of the plexi.

about 12 inches above that is another very clean piece of plexi-glass - with the bullet placed on that.

550ex off to right bounced of a white reflector above the bullet. this, in combination with the strong backlighting, prevented any reflections on the plex-glass and the print.

i used a pretty wide aperture, and longish exposure to balance the reflected light from the flash and the filtered backlight.

the sigma 105mm is at about a 1:1.5 magnification.



Statistics
Place: 69 out of 131
Avg (all users): 5.2446
Avg (commenters): 4.8929
Avg (participants): 4.6207
Avg (non-participants): 5.3811
Views since voting: 1117
Views during voting: 736
Votes: 323
Comments: 29
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01/23/2007 11:56:24 PM
nice trick I guess!!!
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 01/23/2007 10:32:09 PM
Too good to be true.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/23/2007 04:27:51 PM
I wasn't sure what to think of this; I like it, but I didn't get a feeling of motion from it. While the subject is in sharp focus and I know what it is, and likely that it was moving very, very fast (and am intrigued with how you captured it), I still don't buy it as a motion panning shot (stop action, maybe), but without a distinct background, the motion panning aspect is lost on me.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/22/2007 11:24:42 PM
heavily photoshoped
 01/22/2007 08:27:03 PM
clever, nice image, not sure it fits the challenge.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/22/2007 05:47:25 PM
LOL great way to fake it! I love it.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/22/2007 04:49:16 PM
Nice shot but I boubt you panned a moving bullet and just happened to capture it in a motion panning way. I could be wrong. Great shot though.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/21/2007 10:28:52 PM
I may be wrong, but the unblurred specks on the background lead me to believe that there's no motion happening here, merely the attempted illusion of it...
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/21/2007 04:11:30 PM
Cool effect, I am assuming that this is a stationary bullet on a painted surface, but it looks like it is flying to me.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/21/2007 08:56:18 AM
This is an excellent capture, though it looks more like extreme frozen motion than panned motion. I wonder if it would even be possible to truly pan the motion of a bullet, with the rate at which it travels? Hope you'll post how you did this.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/20/2007 10:50:14 PM
DNMC
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 01/19/2007 11:53:18 PM
sorry, not enough context to give me a sense of motion.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/19/2007 07:41:12 PM
wow .... and HOW!! =8
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/18/2007 07:33:07 AM
don't no how you did this, but I hope knowone got in your way.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/18/2007 07:25:53 AM
is that a bullet?
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/18/2007 05:40:54 AM
Is this really motion panning?

Cool idea though.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/17/2007 11:14:51 PM
hmmm...i wonder how this was done. if i was sure of the process, i'd give it more than a 7
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/17/2007 10:47:09 PM
i'm guessing this is not you motion panning a bullet being shot out of a gun? if so wow, you should get the ribbon for having some really good reflexes.
the bullet seems to be too frozen to me.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/17/2007 10:08:38 PM
I can't imagine how you achieved this with motion panning... intigued?
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/17/2007 09:23:02 PM
Image quality - 1. Composition - .5. Lighting - 1.5. Post Processing - 1. Choice of Subject - 1.5. TOTAL SCORE - 6
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/17/2007 01:56:29 PM
clever idea - but does it convey motion panning ? I'm pretty sure that even if this was a really bullet fired from a gun you didn't 'pan' to capture the action :-)
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/17/2007 12:42:04 PM
how did you catch that shot? its cool if it real. 9
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/17/2007 12:36:20 PM
If this is done with real panning, then congratulations, the bullet is perfectly clear against a background that implies motion.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/17/2007 07:32:34 AM
DNMC: I'm afraid the bullet is steady on a steady background...
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/17/2007 06:31:01 AM
nice shoot :)
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/17/2007 05:01:59 AM
Good Idea...wonderful color blending...well done !
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/17/2007 01:17:43 AM
Not really getting a feeling of panning in this shot. I see a bullet on a colorful background but really no sense of motion.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/17/2007 12:44:02 AM
I don't believe that this meets the challenge: "motion panning" means (to me) moving the camera to track a moving subject. This image would have had to use a high-speed strobe (and stationary camera, a la Harold Edgerton) to capture a bullet in flight....unless (I suppose) this bullet were hand-tossed..... I don't see any panning blur, although if you're spinning your torso at the speed of a bullet, I'm even more impressed! :)
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/17/2007 12:27:09 AM
great idea, but a bit fakey to me. Van
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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