Hi friends,
For the weekly contest #POBphotocontest organized by @friendlymoose, this week has chosen a very interesting topic such as movement.
For my participation I have opted for the option of showing through a few photographs taken with relatively long exposure times, to transmit with my photographs that it is a static format that there is movement within them.
Roundabout of the Red Cross in Oviedo
About six months ago I bought a tripod and a shutter release that, together with my camera, would allow me to take photographs with long exposure times or, in other words, with slow shutter speeds.
In this way, by making the corresponding ISO adjustments, we can take in a single photograph all the movement in the same frame during a certain time and with the aim of keeping the photo in focus, I selected a static point in the scene as a focus point, such as one of the lampposts at the back of the fountain.
Later, in order to give prominence to the movement of the water in the fountain, I decided to crop the photo in order to place the fountain in one of the intersection points of the rule of thirds.
And as you can see, you can still see trails of white and some red lights along the roundabout, due to the fact that during the exposure time the light from the different cars in movement has been captured.
Waterfall on Castello beach
Another of my first long exposure photos and once I had bought the relevant tripod I went to my favourite beach to take long exposure photos where I could catch the movement of the water in the photographs. In this case you can see the movement of the waves of the frozen sea.
In this same beach, there is an area where a small stream flows at a certain height from the beach forming a small waterfall. So, using the same long exposure technique, we can capture the movement of the water along the waterfall that comes out of one of the corners of the photograph in an intentional way to give the scene a greater force of water movement.
Long exposure without a tripod (Camera shake blur)
Taking a long exposure photograph without a tripod is not easy and even more so if you are a novice like me.
However, when I was with my work colleague Javier in the city of Albacete, seeing him sitting on a bench and seeing a city bus coming in our direction, I couldn't avoid the temptation to capture the movement of the bus in the form of the trail of light.
My entry to #POBphotocontest
But as you can see, I didn't manage to spend the 3 seconds of taking the picture focusing on my companion and so my friend is slightly out of focus. A pity I didn't have my tripod at the moment.
But even if I have this focus failure due to the movement of my camera I select it as my entry to the contest, because with it I bring a double message about movement.
With the long exposure we can capture the movement that surrounds a static object.
The movement of our camera is the great enemy to capture the movement surrounding our protagonist.
I hope you like my contribution to the #POBphotocontest.
Best regards.
