Taken at the Lion Habitat in the MGM Grand Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada. Slight crop, resized, no other editing. The feeling I hope this evokes is in identifying with the ball (the prey) and knowing it is about to be attacked and there is no escape from it's fate.
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renne the slow shutter speed might have worked - had the camera been braced so the movement was in the lion and the ball.
Instead the movement is camerashake (ie all over the picture), which makes it look like a mistake.
Always use a tripod or study table for shots with slow shutter speeds. 1/30s of a sec is often the very very slowest a photog can get away with without camera shake - and that is will a sturdy strong arm.
Thanks for all your comments! Guess this pic didn't quite convey what I was hoping for (the ball fleeing for it's very "life" but about to be caught anyhow, therefore "No Escape"). The slow shutter was purposeful, hoping the feeling of blurred movement would heighten the tension...but alas, the attempt didn't work. Oh well...maybe next challenge, eh? :)
The ball may qualify as the inanimate object, I guess. The motion blur is too much. I would have by far preferred the background to be in focus while the ball and lion remained blurred.
I'm not sure what you were going for in this image, fear maybe? On second view , bumping to 7. I like the concept, but it's unclear without the aid of the title.
Perhaps you were going for a feeling of movement (I hope you were) but it is so blurry that it is not appealing. I also don't see how this meets the challenge.
I like the effect on this picture. The little thingy in this picture shows joy. This is a very interesting picture. Made to look this way on purpose or not, it doesn't matter. Great job!
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