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Photo Forum / Digital Photography / Digital Photo / January 2008creating the look of SPEED
My Photo instructor takes pictures at a local horse track during the races for the different owners. She mentioned in class that her pictures during the race are always taken so the horse moves from "left to right" as it creates the look of speed within the picture! My guess is this would also apply with cars too. Something to do with the way we look at a page(read). Pictures showing cars travelling right to Left don't have the same effect! Hope this helps On Jan 30, 10:25 pm, bonita.coll...@gmail.com wrote: > My Photo instructor takes pictures at a local horse track during the > races for the different owners. She mentioned in class that her [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > the way we look at a page(read). Pictures showing cars travelling > right to Left don't have the same effect! Hope this helps Yeah, it is one of those rules of thumb that applies to ANYTHING in motion- even animals. I am not sure if the effect is actually TRUE, but that is sure the rule of thumb, and any picture submitted to a salon competition will be judged higher if you follow that rule. With an animal or many vehicles, one can always flip the shot in the editor. But of course shots of vehicles with numbers or logos on them will not work for this. Another similar ROT is to not center the moving object, but allow more room to "move" on the right side. That is, put the center of the object to left of center of frame. > On Jan 30, 10:25 pm, bonita.coll...@gmail.com wrote: >> My Photo instructor takes pictures at a local horse track during the [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > room to "move" on the right side. That is, put the center of the > object to left of center of frame. Hummm. Seems to be that Steeplechase would be an exception, as would barrel racing. Both have the action going one way, and then the other. I have never seen a picture of a barrel racer that didn't give an impression of speed. <bonita.college@gmail.com> wrote in > My Photo instructor takes pictures at a local horse track during the > races for the different owners. She mentioned in class that her [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > the way we look at a page(read). Pictures showing cars travelling > right to Left don't have the same effect! Hope this helps That's Euro-centric though. It is the opposite for, say, native readers of Arabic. Not sure if it matters if you are Chinese.  SignatureDominic Richens | knob@storm.ca "If you're not *outraged*, you're not paying attention!" > <bonita.college@gmail.com> wrote in > > My Photo instructor takes pictures at a local horse track during the [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > That's Euro-centric though. It is the opposite for, say, native readers of > Arabic. Not sure if it matters if you are Chinese. Chinese, like japanese, is written left-to-right.Sometimes it might be written top to bottom. -- Tzortzakakis Dimitrios major in electrical engineering mechanized infantry reservist hordad AT otenet DOT gr You decide: http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=2nr2f6f&s=3 http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=t71mis&s=3 For what it's worth, in my opinion left to right is a good rule of thumb and she is quite right, however it's not the bible and there are many great shots taken from right to left. In the examples above, right to left was the chosen shot and personally I think it works. It's not right or wrong, it just works. You will sometimes be unable to have the choice however. For example, at Silverstone the cars move clockwise (right to left, unless you are on the inside). You can Photoshop it, but why do it unless it makes a significant difference to the shot (and of course, if the car is sponsored, the graphics will be backwards)? If shooting a horse, although the horse and rider appear symmetrical, this is not true and you can change the look just by flipping horizontally. Whether you change it for the better, or the worse, it's depends. > My Photo instructor takes pictures at a local horse track during the > races for the different owners. She mentioned in class that her [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > the way we look at a page(read). Pictures showing cars travelling > right to Left don't have the same effect! Hope this helps > You decide: > http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=2nr2f6f&s=3 [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] >> the way we look at a page(read). Pictures showing cars travelling >> right to Left don't have the same effect! Hope this helps Flipping can have some unintended consequences. Try flipping a photo of a person mounting a horse, and see how many funny looks it gets from riders.... |
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