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by alanbataar

Comment by alanbataar:
Hey there y'all... Thanks for the nice comments!

I was trying to capture some of the nice fall colors and blue sky in the background, but the ones that had a nice background wound up with a blurry subject, or worse, a strange expression on my face. This is technically a self-portrait.

To answer the questions regarding how I achieved the blur within the rules of basic editing, I stood in front of several trees with nice colors, and held the camera out at arms length. 10-22mm lens at 10, and the apeture set to be pretty small, f18, in order to drive up the shutter speed, which was 1/5th of a second. The natural light versions were too blurry to use, so I fired the built-in flash to get a crisp subject, yet allow the background to swirl.

One nice thing about the XTi with the 10mp capture is that it allowed me to dramatically crop the image down from the catpure and still get a very useable size.

Joyride!
by alanbataar

Comment by John Pahl:
Hmm, interesting.
Not really sure what to make of it, but it's nice to see something different after seeing so many hats, lol..

So let us know how you took the photo, thanks.

Good luck..

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Comment by rtscribbs02:
i like the motion effect

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Comment by bvlindalou:
nice effect....8

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Comment by graphicfunk:
Nice feeling of movement.

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Comment by 777STAN:
Dudesy! Great capture! :)

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Comment by DianeS:
Nice motion blur

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Comment by JuliBoc:
Very exciting. How did you do this with basic editing?

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Comment by poser:
cool

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Comment by escapetooz:
I like the motion effect on the right side but I don't like how it fuzzes out his face on the left.