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Pelican Blur #1

Pelican with motion blur

The story behind this image

We're a far cry from my usual photographic haunts in North Wales this time!

Actually, this shot was taken in the summer of 2008 at the beach on the island of St Martin, in the Carribean. I've got dozens of images taken on this holiday that I need to process so I thought I'd make a start and cheer myself up with some summer sun while the snow is turning to slush on the drive outside.

Wherever I go now I try and take some blur photos as I really like the surrealist painterly effect they can give. This one was an attempt at a panning shot of a low flying pelican, taken with a slowish shutter speed to allow the pelican to blur along with the background.

Happy memories of being warm in the sun! It's freezing back in Wales tonight!

Image data


Filename - pelican 01.jpg

Camera - Canon 5D

Lens - 24-105mm zoom @ 105mm

Exposure - 1/25sec @ f16, ISO100

Location - St Martin, Carribean

This image - 800x496px JPEG

Conversion - ACR & PS-CS2

Comments - Image intentionally blurred by panning during the exposure.