Went out shooting on this road to get some long shutter shots of cars driving by, not many cars turned into me being bored and eventually reshooting an old photo I shot a long time ago (this time on a much more aesthetically pleasing road).
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My name is Kari and I will be critiquing your image.
First impression
I think this is an interesting take on the challenge ... being a self portrait creates this. It is not in the purest form "motion blur" but it is motion blur nevertheless.
Subject
Generally when we think of motion blur we automatically think of issues such as motion panning .. this is where the subject is followed, the shot taken at that speek and the background is blurred with the subject basically freeze framed. There are a few which have choosen to follow the method that you have done ... and this works fine. My side issue is that there seems to be no story behind the shot .. no reason to stand in the middle of the street .. so it is just a little boring (to me that is not to others).
Composition
The person is extremely centered and also quite a distance from the camera .. the road acts as a leading line taking us to the back of the shot. The flare of the light behind is a big distraction, that could have been addressed through cropping.
Technicals
Colours are good ... picture is generally sharp ... except where blurred ... and that is meant to be there ...
Final word
This is a solid shot ... could do with some improvement .. but these have been mentioned ...
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The suburbs are spooky places! City-mouse speaking here. This is a surreal image in a way. Is that the moon? I wish it was not quite so bright and wish the human was, say, on a bike with red tail light receding into the distance. Somehow, this had potential and needs a little help.
i ike the slightly surrealness of this picture; puts me in mind of "fight club" for some reason... i like that the subject is the blur, rather than the background, which i think is a creative take on the challenge. it feels wonky though, even though the horizon does look horizontal - i'm not sure what it is (camber in the road surface, illusion of the taller trees on the left?) but it is a distraction. as is the big street light right above your subject; i think you could have got round this by doing a more wide-screen type crop, like 10mm above and below your subject; not sure this would be 160px though... like it overall though, both conceptually and in execution. 7.
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