Bull Fighter

[zafra52]

As I was commenting on a picture a few days
ago in this forum, it occurred to me to do exactly
what I was recommending and face the music
and here it is:

[sirhc55]

Purrrrrrrrfect

[CraigVTR]

Arty. It has very good balanced elements and may look good printed on the right medium and hung in the right space. But in all honesty, I'm not sure.

[biggerry]

That shot does nothing for me, quite frankly the blur and more noticeably teh blur direction gives me motion sickness, that could be due to the 3 beers and the hour before hand of spinning around with a 2 yro but...

how to improve it? I dunno, someone with more of a artistic bone in their body than me well hopefully pipe in.

What do you think of it zafra?

[surenj]

Gives me a bit of motion sickness as well. Do you have a picture with a little bit more definition to the subjects? I also think that perhaps a circular motion is more appropriate for these subjects to convey chaos rather than linear motion here.

[Reschsmooth]

I like it very much. Conveys a sense of volatility and danger which is relevant to the activity.

[gstark]

I'm sorry, I tried cleaning my glasses. Three times.

Still does nothing for me.

[the foto fanatic]

I admire the attempt and think that the result is interesting.

I think that if you tried it again (difficult with this subject, I know!) slightly less blurring would make it much more involving.

I don't know whether you achieved the blur with panning or shutter speed (maybe both) but if you were able to go easier on the panning or use a faster shutter speed the figures would be more distinct.

As it is, it is very abstract, and that may have been your intention. If so, you would be pleased with the results.

This is someone making a photograph rather that just shooting what is in front of them.

[Remorhaz]

Yeah sorry Zafra too much blur for me to - it's probably not blurry enough to be that overall arty soft blur (like a bokeh image) and too blurry to be that recognisable shot (i.e. if you didn't say what it was I'm not sure I would have got it). Suren's idea may have had some merit (rather than straight up and down movement).

[zafra52]

Thank you friends for your time and comments. As I mentioned
before, the idea came to me after commenting in a member's
picture so I wanted to put myself into his/her shoes and try to
do to one of my pictures what I was advising, and I certainly
got quite a variety of reactions from this audience and the 50
or more that visited my web page.

Personally I got exactly the effect I was after. The subject itself is
not to everybody's taste so I thought the added motion blur turning
it into an impresionistic image and would be more palatable, if that
is the right word.

Here is the original out of the camera no resizing or anything done
to it for accidentally I changed the camera setting and many of my
pictures were taken at very low resolution.

[PiroStitch]

I think this would work better if it was a shot from the side of the matador and the bull. The current angle and perspective doesn't work with what was being attempted.

[surenj]

agree the eye contact issue.

[zafra52]

One of the many issues I decided to turn
the picture into the above image. Thanks
for the comments.