Motion Blur [Orange You Glad It's Friday]

Happy New Year!!

I’ve begun playing around with deliberately moving the camera during shooting in order to deliberately generate blur effects. In this regard, there are several possible approaches: at the time of shutter release, one can move the camera vertically or horizontally or in a circular motion, or while zooming in/out. Each option produces a different and distinctive effect. In all cases, however, the exposure time [shutter speed] must be sufficient to keep the shutter open a long enough time. So, one has to experiment with settings for ISO, f-stop and exposure time The example below was shot several years ago [1 sec, f/5.6 and ISO 200]; it may be that I did not even intentionally try to get the blur; but, hand-held for 1 sec did the job. I include this image because it is the only one having something genuinely orange in color.

 

These images were created recently using settings in the following range: f/16 - f/22, ISO 100, and 0.25 - 0.70 sec exposure time. 

I will be taking a break for several weeks...see you later in January.

Signs/Walls 2 [Orange You Glad It's Friday]

Today we finish the mini-series, signs/walls. The comical looking character below is actually the logo for Turkcell, the Turkish telecommunications company. The sign was suspended by wires across a street in Istanbul, and I was determined to bring back a record of it.

 

This storefront in Galway, Ireland, below speaks for itself. It was a OYGIF photo-op that stopped me in my tracks as we ambled down a side street.

Of course, pubs and tobacco shops abound in Ireland; and we might have stopped in for a pint at this locale.

 Back home in Rochester, NY, this is the side wall of an automotive parts store.   

While the temperatures in Rochester recently reached the 60s in mid-December, the lower left hand corner of the photo below is a chilling reminder of what awaits us.  The attire of the couple in the show window is certainly inconsistent with the prevailing season.  I tend to doubt that it was meant to cheer up passersby. If I were to give this a title, it would be Reality Check.

Signs/Walls 1 [Orange You Glad It's Friday]

Today we move out of the confines of an abandoned subway tunnel and into the light of day. Subjects for OYGIF are often found on walls, buildings, posts or doors. Here are a several examples. The image below is attached to an abandoned house. 

These two images are on the walls of buildings in or near Rochester’s Public Market. 

The next shot is of a button for pedestrians to push in order to change the traffic light for them to cross the street.  As you can see, the post offers some ‘free advertising space’. 

Rochester’s Abandoned Subway 3 [Orange You Glad It's Friday]

Our tour of Rochester’s Abandoned Subway continues from last week. A short distance further into the tunnel, we came across a brass quintet [comprised of students from the world famous Eastman School of Music of the University of Rochester]. Evidently, the tour organizers had employed them to entertain passersby...very classy, indeed. We tarried awhile to enjoy the concertizing, but continued on as soon as the crowd had swelled. 

                              

Some of the tunnel sections saw the light of day through the open arches, as seen below. If you scroll back to the first of the three series’ postings, you can see this section of the tunnel from the outside.

                             

                            

                             

                             

                             

Now that I’ve been inside, I look forward to the next opportunity to return.