TNMC

It's fair time.  It's the sort of thing you both love and hate.  It can be a lot of fun but at the same time, it hasn't changed much since I was a kid, so it is pretty repetitious.  The kids love going though, so watching them have fun is a pleasure.  But the fair sort of takes over the area for a week, which is a pain in the ass.  I love the endless choices of things deep fried on a stick.  But it's too expensive.  You get the idea.

But a county fair is a rich photographic environment, so that should really stop my from griping so much.  It won't, but it should.  I'm an awful grouch some days.

Today my main goal was putting motion blur to good use.  The basic idea is give the camera a fairly slow shutter speed, then physically track your target with the camera while shooting.  Done properly, the target is sharp and the background is a blurred streak, giving an impression of motion and speed.

I came up with a few good photos but I need a lot more work on this technique.  And that's the fun part.