Chaos in the Swamp

PixelRabbit · May 17, 2014

Doing some processing left over from the loaner T3. I think the smaller size of this looses a bit so I only resized to 1024 as opposed to 8-900 on the long side, it still looks better to my eye at the original size, this one BEGS to be big imho.

Would love to hear your thoughts, thanks for taking a look!

IMG_0123-1 by Judi Smelko, on Flickr

Mike Lamb · May 17, 2014

It's nice but again I'm looking for something marginally identifiable/more in focus to anchor the pic. Something to take it beyond all blur and motion. The blue is as close as it comes for that.

Mike Lamb · May 17, 2014

I sharpened the lower left and blue area some to try to give a little focus to all of the madness.

PixelRabbit · May 18, 2014

Thanks for your thoughts and the edit Mike, where'd it go though?

I saw it late last night on my ipod but wanted to look on the computer this morning.

I uploaded the original size (HUGE lol), I think all of these lose something when I resize but especially ones like this where there aren't any solid blocks.

IMG_0123-L by Judi Smelko, on Flickr

BillM · May 18, 2014

I like it and I would like to see Mike's edit. Somebody needs to learn me something, I need to expand beyond birds and sports. I actually tried to use a flash the other day and failed miserably

EOV · May 18, 2014

Judi, it does indeed look like chaos. It feels like what you would see as you are being chased and running for your life.

PixelRabbit · May 18, 2014

Thanks Bill, hopefully he will repost it! It's awesome that you want to get outside your hula hoop and try other stuff! I'm looking forward to seeing what you come up with

Thanks Eric, I agree!

pgriz · May 18, 2014

With certain images, the subject IS the lack of a specific subject. The way Judi does these pans, the image becomes a texture play, with the various streaks and blurs creating a texture of lines. There is enough pattern there that we can recognize the scene underlying the image, but the streaks and blurs filter out much detail. This changes our ability to perceive, and leaves us with focusing on the visual pattern created by the lines. Mike Lamb, if you're needing a focus, then the focus would be the patch of blue water visible in the lower half of the image. That is where the blur is least, and yet, that is the less important part, for the branches on both sides of this water are the real players in the image (at least, for me).