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pixelpigComment by vawendy: There is something quite appealing about this shot, but something not quite right, as well. The fork tines blur is very appealing, and the lines from the bottom of the fork are quite intriguing. The middle of the fork, where it's being rotated, is not as appealing, but I'm not sure you can do anything about that.
I'd be interested to see what happens if you had the fork in focus at the very end, so you have the motion blur, but there's a resolution. A couple of thoughts on how to achieve this:
1. Do you have an external flash? What about doing the 5 second exposure and then firing the flash at the end. I'm not sure whether this would work, but I think it would.
2. Setting your camera to do a rear curtain flash. I've never tried this, but I believe it will also have the same effect.
3. Silly solution that might work without playing with flash: set up a tripod very near where you're moving the camera. Set the shot for about 5 seconds longer than normal. Start the shot, do your rotations, when you're done rotating, put the lens cap on, put the camera on the tripod, take lens cap off and let it expose for another second or two. The final fork position should then be in focus. (You could try rotating it on the tripod, but then you wouldn't get the undulations.)
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Lastly, you do have a processing problem, but you might not see it on your screen. On my screen, the lower left hand corner isn't black, it's a spotty blue. That's the type of thing that can hurt you the most. I've had this on shots where I've had a black background. The best thing to do is when you're working in photoshop, slowly increase the brightness of the photo and look what happens in your black background, this will show you the areas that you need to burn, clone or just darken in curves (when doing advanced editing.)
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