represent movement in Photos 
highway tunnel between Messina and Cefalu, Sicily 2005
If you would like movements are in pictures, that's really just using longer exposure times. This technical resources you can also make photos that are rewarded not by fleeting glance. During that rainy night in December I had on my passenger seat actually feel "Fall through" the tunnel, which I tried to hold on my photo, also the rapid period and the uncertainty of what to expect. There were about 30 pictures needed to get this one, what makes me happy, even though in retrospect I still see potential for improvement. THUS, for example, the street and the white lines on the asphalt can be shown a little sharper.
was taken with what the image EXIF data, you can always look like with the appropriate plug-in (see also my last post ). The noise of my Nikon D70 would have been less secure when I did at a lower ISO number and would have photographed it with a more open aperture. But now I've got four more years of experience with digital photography, now I know better finally. Well that in those more color and graphic images acting, the 100% view on the screen is really essential ...
The second current appearance dates back to a suggestion that I got from the book "Digital Nature Photography in Practice" by Fritz Pölking , who unfortunately died already. Almost a must-read for all photographers, not only for nature lovers as Pölking shows the main points you must observe these days in digital photography. And it shows also indicate what is not important, its full page printed photos, taken with different cameras and different resolutions, speak for themselves! His reviews and travel tips and of course his wonderful photographs of animals are a delight in this book. His workshop reports on the website are worth a read.
The inspiration was a picture of insects that had been taken with a longer exposure time. That's what I remembered when I was sitting in the summer of 2009 in the Etosha National Park in Namibia at a water hole and annoyed me, as it slowly but surely was too dark to take pictures. The black rhino but made not so much here, and I wanted to pack away the camera on, when I noticed the insects that buzzed around a water hole on established small headlights. I took five pictures, then this was in the can. Nothing really earth shattering, but a beautiful reproduction of observation, you can do every summer evening near bright light sources. But by illuminating the curved lines will also get a graphical picture of this quality, and here I especially like the smoke, which are illuminated by the lamp outside the neck, and of course come from the fact that burn repeatedly insects on the hot bulb. So also is the transience is back Part of the statement of death in the pursuit of light and heat.
Most of my favorite photos, however, are clear and sharp and rather conventional. These are the exceptions. Sometimes it's fun to experiment and take pictures of blurry movements. But in my opinion it is in the process especially important to have a clear idea of the meaning of the picture and then also have to present, for otherwise the slow shutter speed degenerates into a mere gimmick or technical showmanship. But good art is what pleases. We leave it at that.
PS: The excitement is because I still have a new camera and a new lens to test here and will soon report on it. But only when I have collected enough experience with it!
Life's too short for counting pixels. Go out and take exciting pictures, freeze your vision of the world around us in your very own photographs. Time is ticking away ...
