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OLS · 05-15-2014, 06:03 AM

I will say another thing about that blur to add to what Jeff said. The pic is GOOD. The blurred hand is NOT bad.
To me it evokes the feeling of motion in a shot with no real motion defined in itself. If you stop the action completely,
there may not be enough dynamism in the photo to show that she wasn't just Shao Lin ninja poppin. When people
see the photo, there is a 90% chance they are drawn to the face or other body parts based on particular preferences.
The HAND is only really relevant when people start to pick a photo apart for critical purposes. There is a GOOD chance
that the photo would be LESS effective if caught in perfect frozen action. All that said, I KNOW why people in your position
focus on the hand....its because you think we will and you may hope to deflect that. I do it all the time. People say
"wow, nice shot" and immediately I launch into "well, yeah, but..." Human nature. I have read the banter of enough
pros over the past two years to know, to most of them, if the eyes are in perfect focus, they don't seem to care about
much else, lol.

05-15-2014, 06:03 AM	#3800
OLS Suck It Join Date: Oct 2008 First Name: Brad Location: TN Posts: 7,912 Trading: (19)	Re: Photography Thread I will say another thing about that blur to add to what Jeff said. The pic is GOOD. The blurred hand is NOT bad. To me it evokes the feeling of motion in a shot with no real motion defined in itself. If you stop the action completely, there may not be enough dynamism in the photo to show that she wasn't just Shao Lin ninja poppin. When people see the photo, there is a 90% chance they are drawn to the face or other body parts based on particular preferences. The HAND is only really relevant when people start to pick a photo apart for critical purposes. There is a GOOD chance that the photo would be LESS effective if caught in perfect frozen action. All that said, I KNOW why people in your position focus on the hand....its because you think we will and you may hope to deflect that. I do it all the time. People say "wow, nice shot" and immediately I launch into "well, yeah, but..." Human nature. I have read the banter of enough pros over the past two years to know, to most of them, if the eyes are in perfect focus, they don't seem to care about much else, lol.