Treasure Hunt 4: Vote 5: Motion Blur

vote! 1pizza ! 2train! 3doggie! 4cats! 5redrum!

Jim,
did you just get lucky, catching the paw swipe, or were you doing something like shining a laser pointer around to play with the cat? It's a good shot.

the cats were playing, so i thought i might get a shot of dennis' tail blurring as he lashed it back and forth. i got a couple...that suck...and one of him blurring out of the frame....but this one was just a matter of taking a lot of pics, and having one come out OK.

WTF is wrong with all of you who voted for #4? The composition doesn't suck becasue there is no composition.

Look at five more closely. the circle and the cat balance nicely

sock puppets ;)

squirell nutkin;635383 wrote:

WTF is wrong with all of you who voted for #4? The composition doesn't suck becasue there is no composition.

Look at five more closely. the circle and the cat balance nicely

That's a very good point, assuming you are voting based primarily on composition. But I liked the motion blur of the cat's paw the most.

5 is perfect

Spike is just so cute... had to vote for him.

4 would have been better if the photog had gotten lower and shot from in front of the cat instead of obliquely.

Work with me here people!

and where are YOUR pictures?

The dog ate them?

well... I voted for jinx too.

Of course, her photo is nearly perfect. It's 99.99999999% free of need.
Yours is much better when I look at it closer and consider it's made by the husband of the woman who made the essentially perfect photo.

Plus, when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness. So you got that going for you.

also it's not so much a skillz and perfection comp as an "essence of the idea" thing. Cellhone pictures snapped on the go are just as valid as tripod $400 zoom lens jobbies planned for days. as long as they vaguely hit the category target. You can vote based on composition. I'll vote based on what i like and my vote is just as valid. so :p

I just couldn't not vote for #5. (is that right)

monster;635517 wrote:

also it's not so much a skillz and perfection comp as an "essence of the idea" thing. Cellhone pictures snapped on the go are just as valid as tripod $400 zoom lens jobbies planned for days. as long as they vaguely hit the category target. You can vote based on composition. I'll vote based on what i like and my vote is just as valid. so :p

Of course, it is not about the camera at all. a good cell phone picture is better than a shitty picture made with a $10,000 camera. But what makes the cell phone picture a good picture is more than its subject, or composition or "essence of the idea." The essence of the idea has to be communicated in the first place, and like spoken language there is a visual literacy that isn't derived from the equipment or the technique or the subject or the "idea."

I'd say it was the gestalt.

Plus, I base my voting on who makes and shares the best cookies.

Stop making me learn new words.

squirell nutkin;635561 wrote:

Plus, I base my voting on who makes and shares the best cookies.

The squirell is wise.

Look at all the ties!