Tag: motion blur

Perseid Night

Farnham Park, Surrey

The night the Perseid shower was meant to provide the best seeing here in Southeastern England, we went out to the park around midnight. As we ran out the door, I grabbed a camera with a 55-200mm zoom on it, but no tripod. While the sky was mostly clear and dark, there was a glow on the Eastern horizon which I imagine was from Aldershot. We did see a few brief streaks in the sky and one very bright one. Of course, I didn’t capture any of them but, taking handheld (braced) shots with 4 second exposures at ISO 12,800 I did get some mysterious and eerie night shots of the sky with a handful of blurry stars.

Moving Landscapes

While traveling down the highway on Christmas morning, I was struck by the occasional radiance of the odd tree with golden leaves still on it, leaping out from amidst the gray empty branches of its surroundings. I shot at 1/320th, which mostly froze motion at a distance but not necessarily in the nearer foreground. The result is landscapes that look like they’re moving past me at high speeds (instead of the reverse). It was rare that I actually captured the single tree I was aiming at.

English Dusk

A little over 12 years ago, on a wintery February day, I last took the EuroStar to Paris. Some may remember landscapes I posted from that trip, where I deliberately kept the shutter speed slower to bring some motion blur into the images, yielding a soft, impressionistic effect. This time, the EuroStar pictures were taken on the English side under a vibrant sunset hour. Click any image to see them all full-sized.