Comments on: Just a Wee Bit of (Ethereal or Maybe Ghostly) Blur

By: Jules

Jules — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:10:48 +0000

Great colors and a very nice degree of blur, Ed. I never thought to go with a faster ss…very interesting!

By: Anita Bower

Anita Bower — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:52:06 +0000

I do like the ghostly effect you achieved.

By: California Photo Scout

California Photo Scout — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:05:30 +0000

I usually try to avoid such small apertures due to diffraction unsharpness. It’s probably not a problem it you want to blur the image, but for waterfall nature shot’s.
Anyways, I really like what you are doing here. Very creative.

By: Montucky

Montucky — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:11:28 +0000

It’s the colors you caught that makes this great!

By: Tomas Turecek

Tomas Turecek — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:33:56 +0000

Another very interesting blurred photo, Ed. I would also say rather ghostly than ethereal. I wonder what moves did you do because it seems that you moved your camera verticaly and also horizontaly but I can’t imagine doing it in so short time. Anyway, great work! I really like it.

By: Stacey Dawn

Stacey Dawn — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:29:20 +0000

oooh…I like it! I like the way that the larger trunks are so so defined. Great job.

By: chris

chris — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:07:33 +0000

I love it too… It’s a funny and the feeling when watching it is funny and strange too! Kind of slow motion movie!

By: Anna

Anna — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:33:08 +0000

I like this very much! I haven’t yet tried in camera motion blur. This is something I’ll have to try. With this ethereal image, I really like the lines and depth. Gorgeous!

By: David Patterson

David Patterson — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:56:52 +0000

Ed… nice. It does look rather ghostly with the depth in the scene. The length of time that the shutter is open and how much movement you employ obviously impacts the result. Longer exposure and less movement can have similar effect to shorter exposure and more movement etc. This is an interesting technique, and I like your results.