5 p.m. - Tea time!
by Alex_Petrini

Comment by Chinarosepetal:
Nice picture but I would call it background motion blur, not panning. :)

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Comment by jagar:
Congrats Alessendro, you achieved some good discussion :) well done on the blue.

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Comment by Tiny:
Congratulations,still love this shot.

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Comment by Tommy_Mac:

Originally posted by klkitchens: Originally posted by Tommy_Mac: Originally posted by klkitchens: Originally posted by RyanWareham: Just wanna say that for all the people commenting that this isn't panning - i hope you're saying the same thing to all the entries from the group who went on the amusement park rides, or took pictures of a motorcycle/car from a vehicle matching their speed... there's no difference between them. Great Shot Alessandro and congrats on the blue!! If such were obvious, I'd say the same thing. In this case the railing gives the whole thing away. The camera is still "panning" in one direction...and for those who say the subject isn't moving...go spin on a merry-go-round for an hour ;-) Well, the one thing that's true about DPC : Appealing to the voters is far more important than meeting the terms of the challenge.

I definitely disagree with you there; a great photo that doesn't meet the challenge won't do all that well in votes...in this case we had both a great photo AND one that met the challenge..it was both creative and well executed... and the voters spoke with giving it a blue ribbon...can't ask for more than that.

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Comment by klkitchens:

Originally posted by Tommy_Mac: Originally posted by klkitchens: Originally posted by RyanWareham: Just wanna say that for all the people commenting that this isn't panning - i hope you're saying the same thing to all the entries from the group who went on the amusement park rides, or took pictures of a motorcycle/car from a vehicle matching their speed... there's no difference between them. Great Shot Alessandro and congrats on the blue!! If such were obvious, I'd say the same thing. In this case the railing gives the whole thing away. The camera is still "panning" in one direction...and for those who say the subject isn't moving...go spin on a merry-go-round for an hour ;-)

Well, the one thing that's true about DPC : Appealing to the voters is far more important than meeting the terms of the challenge.

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by Alex_Petrini

Comment by Dennisheckman:
Congrats on the Blue Alessandro!

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Comment by Tommy_Mac:

Originally posted by klkitchens: Originally posted by RyanWareham: Just wanna say that for all the people commenting that this isn't panning - i hope you're saying the same thing to all the entries from the group who went on the amusement park rides, or took pictures of a motorcycle/car from a vehicle matching their speed... there's no difference between them. Great Shot Alessandro and congrats on the blue!! If such were obvious, I'd say the same thing. In this case the railing gives the whole thing away.

The camera is still "panning" in one direction...and for those who say the subject isn't moving...go spin on a merry-go-round for an hour ;-)

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by Alex_Petrini

Comment by klkitchens:

Originally posted by RyanWareham: Just wanna say that for all the people commenting that this isn't panning - i hope you're saying the same thing to all the entries from the group who went on the amusement park rides, or took pictures of a motorcycle/car from a vehicle matching their speed... there's no difference between them. Great Shot Alessandro and congrats on the blue!!

If such were obvious, I'd say the same thing. In this case the railing gives the whole thing away.

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Comment by Jon_H:
Congrats on the blue Alessandro, an image that certainly generated a lot of discussion.

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Comment by dtremain:
Most folks notion of panning means the camera and subject move, but the background does not, resulting in a blurred background. Now, they also incorporate ideas about hand-holding the camera, and following a moving subject with the camera, which is fairly difficult to do well. Where folks have problems with this being panning is that neither the subject nor the camera are themselves moving, nor are they moving independently of each other, but are both in fixed positions on board a structure that is moving. Thus, the difficulty of this shot is more in line with taking a picture of a friend when you are both on a moving bus, with some scenery flowing by the window than it is following a heron in flight while standing firmly on the ground, matching the speed of the camera's movement with the speed of the heron's flight.
You can argue terms all you want.
None of that reflects negatively on the quality of the image. I love the concept of trying to sip tea in a moving carousel. Mixing the common domestic activity with an outdoors rapid movement activity is an interesting notion.