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10/10/2006 07:58:32 AM · #1 |
Hi all. I've been trying to practice getting motion, actual not implied into my animal shots and though I think I'm improving slightly, still feel it's a failure. I want the faces to be in focus of course. From the thumbnail on my camera, I thought I finally had it. When I uploaded I discovered his foot is missing!! Where did it go? What am I doing wrong?
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10/10/2006 08:41:36 AM · #2 |
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Message edited by author 2006-10-10 09:02:35. |
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10/10/2006 08:46:49 AM · #3 |
Hehe... you can only follow motion in one direction. If you pan in the direction of the body and the foot is going in a different direction, the foot will be blurred even more than a stationary background object (in this case blurring completely away). Your best bet is to position yourself so the animal is moving across your field of view rather than toward or away from you. That way, it's at a constant distance and you keep as much as possible in focus. The legs will still be blurred, though.
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10/10/2006 08:49:32 AM · #4 |
The foot is travelling a lot faster in relation to the cat's body is since he is running, so much so that it wasn't still enough in one area of the frame to be recorded. Much like a lot of flying bird shots (if not shot at a decent shutter speed) will have the body of the bird perfect, but the wings just about dissappear because they are moving so fast in relation to the body.
Edit: or what Shannon said, he types faster :-/
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10/10/2006 09:01:33 AM · #5 |
It would have made a great FOOTLESS challenge......... 
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10/10/2006 09:05:02 AM · #6 |
Originally posted by scalvert:
Hehe... you can only follow motion in one direction. If you pan in the direction of the body and the foot is going in a different direction, the foot will be blurred even more than a stationary background object (in this case blurring completely away). Your best bet is to position yourself so the animal is moving across your field of view rather than toward or away from you. That way, it's at a constant distance and you keep as much as possible in focus. The legs will still be blurred, though.
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So, would there be anyway to fix this in post? It looks like it just dissolves. Creepy! I guess the biggest problem with the animals at the zoo, is most are behind glass. So you can really only get them coming at you or away from you. Most never seem to go side to side for some reason.
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10/10/2006 09:07:31 AM · #7 |
Originally posted by Alienyst:
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Huh?
Originally posted by dwterry:
It would have made a great FOOTLESS challenge......... |
LOL!
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10/10/2006 09:11:22 AM · #8 |
Originally posted by kdsprog:
So, would there be anyway to fix this in post? |
Not really. You either use a faster shutter speed to record everything or you live with the blurs. |
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