get pushed #123 - motion blur by summerfield

get pushed #123 - motion blur

charles @zosimasy my partner this week challenged me to do motion blur as per the current camera settings challenge.

this is one of my kryptonites, the technical side of photography. in the middle of the photograph is a special edition of the canadian quarter coin, honouring its women's hockey team who captured gold during the 2002 winter olympics. the four insets are captures of the same quarter coin in different exposure times.

what i learned: even with the constant lighting, the f stop changes as the coin turns. it is difficult to do this without another person doing the spinning of the coin. so that i almost always got the coin just as it was winding down. in my haste to capture the motion, i banged my already sore knee on the stupid tripod; it freaking hurt!

@zosimasy - here you go. the ones i did last saturday sucked and not worth posting. so i had to re-do and here it is. thank you.
December 2nd, 2014  
Oh poor knee! You did well would not have known where to start!
December 2nd, 2014  
I love it!
Sorry about your knee :(
December 2nd, 2014  
Great job on this action shot
December 2nd, 2014  
MWA!!! A kiss for your boo boo! Great job on this one man (woman?) challenge! Definitely way beyond my skills!
December 2nd, 2014  
Very nice! I like the motion on the fourth one.
December 3rd, 2014  
this is cool! i quite like how 1/30 turned out... have you tried using the 2s or 10s delay on your camera?
December 3rd, 2014  
great job!
December 3rd, 2014  
Good job! The 1/30 shot really gives me the idea of spinning.
December 3rd, 2014  
@northy - hmmm.... why didn't i think of that? but it wouldn't take multiple shots if the timer is set. am i sure? why don't i go and try it. :-P hold your horses!
December 3rd, 2014  
@northy - meh, couldn't make it work as i needed to focus on the coin. and can't use multiple shot setting and the delay at the same time.
December 3rd, 2014  
Very cool. Like Ann, I prefer the 1/30th
December 3rd, 2014  
@bill_fe - i have a remote timer/multi-shutter for both my canon and nikon. i just have to figure out how to use it aside from doing the darn remote selfie shots. :-P
December 3rd, 2014  
@summerfield Ah, I see. I just looked up another one too. I have a Vello Shutterboss that works via RF wireless. If all else fails, read the manual. :-P
December 3rd, 2014  
Very cool motion capture. Are you using full manual mode to take these? If not I did wonder whether it would make a difference to the final outcome. I'm sure you should be able to use the remote shutter release in manual mode. Just my pennies worth and probably totally worthless.
December 3rd, 2014  
@salza - yes, these here were done in manual mode. the next one is in aperture mode. i will try again with the remote tonight. thank you,sally.
December 3rd, 2014  
@summerfield - tee-hee! i hate reading the manual, unless i want to get a good sleep! thank you, billy!
December 3rd, 2014  
@summerfield hmmm... does your remote let you do multiple shots?
December 4th, 2014  
@northy - yup, it does. but when i tried to use it on this one here, in manual, everything was out of focus.
December 4th, 2014  
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