Fortnightly Challenge - 5th Mch to midnight 18th Mch - Slow Shutter Speed
 

This fortnight's challenge - Slow Shutter Speed - any subject matter you like as long as you use a slow shutter speed. What is slow? In some respects it depends on the subject matter so I'll not be prescriptive but they always used to reckon that 1/30 sec was the slowest you could hand hold a standard lens (50mm in full frame terms) so let say slower than that. However it should be obvious to the viewer that a 'slow' shutter speed was used - that could be 15 sec for a night shot or 1/15 for very fast running water or a spinning propeller - its up to you

Fortnightly Challenge is open to all members of WPF. The challenge will be run on (GMT) time.

Post your photo in this thread any time from 5th Mch to midnight 18th Mch.

Then a 3 day poll will be placed in this thread for voting on the photo you like best in this challenge.

Please give your photo a title.

The winner picks a challenge for the following fortnight and starts a new thread.

1. One photo per member
2. To be taken during period stated above
3. The photo must include exif data if possible with date and time
4. Post your entry as one attachment directly in this thread
5. No discussion of entries in the thread
6. Do not post any entries in the gallery until after the voting has finished

Good Luck to Everyone

I just found this. Didn't see it had been posted. Nice broad theme, so should attract lots of entries. I have a few early ideas already. Will try to avoid the obvious coastal shots thought, as I live on the coast and that would less challenging for me.

Work Goes On
 

Work Goes On

playing trains
 

my grandson playing on the floor with his train

Fire Starter

Slow rotation
 

Wind farms.

Ennerdale Churchyard
 

Light ball

Some clever and interesting images this week. Sadly nothing from me this time, sorreee

Poole across Holes Bay
 

Poole across Holes Bay

Waiting
 

Beach at night.

Sparks Are Flying

Ghost on the Machine
 

Lame excuse for a selfie:D

Voting now open

Bump to get the challenge poll to the top

Cracking shot graham - a well deserved win:)

Cracking shot graham, deserved the win
John

I agree with John. Lovely shot.

Great capture, just the right shutter speed. Well done.

Thanks folks, a new challenge coming up soon!!

congrats Graham, a lovely image

UPs and Downs
my up was John&me,interesting image, but couldn't see any actual motion in it,even though I know people were working.
Down ...Gidders, loved your image, always very creative.

Ups & Downs

Up - Trena's Playing Trains - I do like this idea. If had been me I'd have been tempted to add a bounced flash to give a crisp image & balanced the ambient light exposure to give the blur... I did this for my shot & I'll do a behind the scenes to explain what I did.

Down - Graham's Slow Rotation - loved the idea, great sky, spot on choice of shutter speed... If I was looking to make it even better I'd maybe have tried a shot moving a bit to the right to separate the building from the right hand windmill, and a square crop to eliminate the tree leaving just three turbines. That said, you got my vote :)

Here's my up and down

Beach At Night - What looks like a shadow in the bottom right hand corner spoiled it for me. Apart from that, a nice image and milky water.

Ghost In The Machine - Really good idea, well composed. Suited the B&W conversion.

Behind the Scenes

I know you lot think thats all my work is done in Photoshop :) but in this case it was all in camera :D

The challenge was to get the movement in the match striking & the hand holding the match, while getting a crisp image. I set up one of my studio strobes, with the modelling light on full power to give the illumination for the blur to the hand/arm moving. This metered at 1 sec @ f8 and I've found that about 1 stop under exposed gives a nice semi transparent blur hence the settings of 0.5 sec @ f8.

Flash exposure power was dialed in to give the correct exposure at f8. The other challenge was to set the flash to fire on second curtain - for some reason I couldn't get this setting with external studio flash... so I fitted my EX580 on minimum power, selected 2nd curtain sync, pointed it at the slave cell of the studio flash to trigger the main flash.

Et volia - lots of effort for no votes... but the main thing is that i enjoyed creating the image :cool:

Sorry for the delay in commenting, I've been without a connection for a few days. My 'up' is Clive with an excellent production (as ever - and thanks for the explanation), it looked good and didn't deserve to be without votes.

Ade G posted the ball of moving light in the churchyard. Same about the white-out in the right centre, but I'm sure it couldn't be avoided in the real world and it certainly represented the slow-shutter theme very well. In fact ...I was that voter!

Graham