Experimenting

[CS]

There was a local event that had a lot of car enthusiasts showing their creations and parading up and down Main street, also known as cruising. So, I grabbed a monopod and my D200/SB800 and staked out a spot on a corner. I had always wanted to play around with rear curtain sync, and here was an opportunity. For this attempt I was panning with the direction of travel of the cars, and I got some interesting results. Here's one I  titled "The Coupe From Hell" prompted by the car and the results of the shot.

[elsa hoffmann]

Kind of looks like a still from a movie where they JUST landed from another time zone

[Frank Fremerey]

Reminds me of the computer game "Grim Fandango" ... the hero in this adventure by Lucas Arts rode some vehicle of comparably sobriety & coloring.

[CS]

Another from that night is this red sedan. While panning with it's movement another vehicle, going in the opposite direction, passed by in the background. So I was in effect panning against that vehicle's movement, thus got different results of the two vehicles in the same shot.


First let me say that this shot is just way too busy with distractions to be of much value beyond showing that the shooter has a lot to learn about this particular avenue of photography. If a picture can be worth a thousand words, this one can be described in far fewer, yuk! But it was fun, none the less!