Slowing Down

This has nothing to do with my age! Just because I have just had a birthday everyone thinks I’m on the way out. So let me say again “slowing down” has nothing to do with my age.

It was a directive about photography. Most pictures that I take require a fairly fast shutter speed. Many of the sailing pictures hit around 1/800 of a second and the guy on the motorbike at last year’s Royal Norfolk Show came out at around 1/4000 of a second

So it was suggested to me that I ought to try and master the skill of slow shutter speed.

In some cases that wasn’t too difficult.

The sea pictures started off at about 1/4 of a second and some lasted as long as four seconds.

To be honest you can’t really go wrong with waves.

It is a question of how much detail you want and how much you are prepared to put up with the water looking like a white smudge.

One up from that was the windy day earlier this week when I went to Bintree Milll. There much depends on the speed of the wind and which ND filter you decide to use.

Not sure I got all the combinations right, some of those purple thistles (you were wondering what they were) should have been clearer.

A trip to Snetterton race track was interesting.

It wasn’t easy to keep the car in the viewfinder, let alone pan with the sort of skill that allowed one to wind up with some sort of still image.

During the Royal Norfolk Show 2023 I had a go at the motorbikes again. They are actually easier to focus on than the racing cars –

could it be, I ask myself because they are going slower? Despite the fact that they leap into the air the speeds achieved by the display team were slower than the racing cars.

Thoroughly encourage by his I had a go at the horse drawn carriages – “What a mistake!!”

I slightly overlooked the fact that while the carriage remained stable, the horse and the driver joggled about! So I wound up with a blurred background (full marks) but a trotting horse, a driver bouncing up and down and wheels going round. Perhaps not quite the effect I was aiming for.

You know the saying

Some you win… and…

Have a good weekend