Photomode Tournament - Round 1 of 2.0 Division - Poll - CLOSED

[ceiling_fan]

Good battle NTX! I would've been out of my league in round 2 anyway.

 

[Tangled Web]

That's what I love about it. TW is so godly original with his blurs, I'd feel bad if I'd even get through this round. He has three different blurs; the road, the trees, and the sky which he has kept unblurred. I have no idea how he managed to separate the sky and trees like he did, but it's a masterpiece 👍

Hahahahaha, I am godly.
I with further explain what I did after Swiss' quote.

I agree with balang that the blurs just don't look right together. Seems like the tree (in-game) blur had the camera swinging to capture the car, whereas the the road blur looks like a chase car camera or mounted camera (on car) blur. However, mixing the two seemingly different blurs was a brilliant call.
To finally comment on Bram's quote up there, I think that the tree blur and lack of blur in the sky is all in-game. But my shots with blurred trees don't look like that...shoot.My new answer is two layers and a layer mask. TW got my vote, because it's so different and the different blurs give a more extreme sense of speed.

I like to think of it as the shape of the trees affecting the blur. I guess it can't be everyone's cup of tea.
About how it was done, three shots were taken. One at full shutter speed and two at a low shutter speed focusing on each wheel. The car, road and sky are from the higher shutter speed shot and the trees and wheels are from the lower.
The road was blurred using PS of course and I used a layer masks as you said to block out the blurring and reveal the sky from the 1/4000 shot.
Hope that is clear, I think having the sky un-blurred gives a good contrast to the blurred trees and better sense of speed. Plus I never like having the sky motion blurred.

If TW keeps up this quality, he'll slaughter everyone!

I'll definitly be rooting for TW through the other rounds, I'm sure he won't dissapoint us

Haha, I hope I don't disappoint you guy's, will try my best to come up with a shot worthy to grace your monitors.


I must say thanks for the votes and the great comments, glad my shot was so well received. That wasn't even my original idea or the shot I was going to go with. I am really looking forward to the next round, love these Tourney's.
Thanks also to NTX for running this so smoothly once again. 👍