An assignment in Phillipsburg, Kansas over the weekend gave me a chance to catch the rodeo on Saturday night. Always a fun thing to shoot, this time I thought I’d experiment a little with slow shutter speeds to better capture the action. The image at the top of this post was made at 1/10th of a second. For comparison, here’s another shot made at 1/1000th of a second:
Each has it place but I really like the abstract nature of the blurred shot. To me it’s an image that is less about that particular rider and is more about the excitement and action of the overall event.
More to come…
I like them both. LIke that that you are using your camera the way a painter uses different brushes.
Thanks, Jane. That’s a great way of thinking of it. I might have to steal that line from you!