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I’m still goofing with this, trying to get it right. I wanted a car in front of me, gives the shot a good focal point. This…eh.

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So I’ve been trying to shoot something, ANYthing early in the morning on my way to work in case I have another one of those days where shooting slips my mind, and I wake up the next day, realize that I missed a day, sit bolt upright, raise my hands to the sides of my face, and go, “NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!”

Or something like that.

My preventive measure against the forgetting of the shooting is to just take some kind of random picture in the morning. Then I at least have one in the can so to speak. It’s my safety shot, my backup, and it has worked on a couple of occasions when I just didn’t get to do anything else toward the end of the day. One thing I’ve noticed about it, though, is that sometimes they can be pretty ordinary shots, or if not exactly ordinary, at least repetitive. I’m guessing you don’t want to see pictures of my office parking lot every morning (although we did get it resealed this summer, and wasn’t that quite exciting??).

So I was on my way to work wanting to shoot something that was somehow a different version of the same thing, and I thought, “I wonder what would happen if I shot this stuff with a reaaaaally slow shutter speed. Would it all be blurry? Can I hold it still? How would that come out?” So I started messing around, and the above is what you get, an effect I’ve seen in motorcycle and car ads on various occasions, and one that’s kind of cool. Looks like you’re really tearing down the road, now doesn’t it? I’m going to goof with this some more, see what I can do. I need to find that balance between fast enough shutter to stop the action of the central focus figure and slow enough to let the background go all crazy/blurry.

Anyway, good times with the shutter speed experiments.