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Yeah, I don't think Windy Meadow shows the motion well. I'd have to say dud.

Not that I've had such great luck showing tall grass in wind. I've got duds aplenty. The image below was one I was doing documenting a river delta park and it was WINDY. I tried to get a low enough angle, but still show sky and horizon line for perspective. I wound up choosing this one with a fairly high shutter speed, because all my slow shutter attempts just made the whole image blurry.
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  • NIKON CORPORATION - NIKON Z 5
  • NIKKOR Z 40mm f/2
  • 40.0 mm
  • ƒ/8
  • 1/320 sec
  • Pattern
  • Auto exposure
  • ISO 100


I think if I could find some tall grass from a low angle, standing out against the sky without any distracting background -- that might work better, but like you, I'm open to suggestions for showing wind in a meadow.
 
Jason . . the motorway shot is fine. Movement in photos to me is powerful feature and interestingly it prints superb in my experience.

The grass one ok has not worked quite how you need it to perhaps on this occasion.
These things like slow shutter speed grass is high risk so personally I praise you for trying it out. You will get there eventually and make it work for you. The failed grass shot at least was interesting to me to look at because of what you did. It is an interesting concept and I will be hoping to do it myself. ( I have tried before too ).

So the grass shot is interesting to me still :)

Regards Dino26323
 
Yeah, I don't think Windy Meadow shows the motion well. I'd have to say dud.

Not that I've had such great luck showing tall grass in wind. I've got duds aplenty. The image below was one I was doing documenting a river delta park and it was WINDY. I tried to get a low enough angle, but still show sky and horizon line for perspective. I wound up choosing this one with a fairly high shutter speed, because all my slow shutter attempts just made the whole image blurry.
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I think if I could find some tall grass from a low angle, standing out against the sky without any distracting background -- that might work better, but like you, I'm open to suggestions for showing wind in a meadow.
Anything that is different to billions and billions of photos that often all look the same is not exactly a DUD in my book but I would say that since I have a few weird ones in my gallery that other folks will swear are DUDS. I am biased since I too have a collection of failed attempts at "something different". Full marks for trying slow shutter speed meadow shots for those that risk failure. That could be a thread for discussion all on its own. Is a low success rate better or worse for us as photographers?


Regards Dino26323
 
It's OK to say that meadow shot was a dud... I personally think it was. I was looking for some but not a whole lot of motion, and I think I just missed it. Someone else in another forum suggested that I do multiple exposures, so if I feel ambitious I might try that next time. Thanks for your comments, everyone!

On top of motion blur, I think I discovered a miscalibrated focus screen in one of my cameras today. That means tomorrow I have to test and possibly do minor surgery on one of my units to fix it. Not looking forward to that.

Anyway, here's today's catch.

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Sunflower by Jason Doss, on Flickr
Pentax K-1 mII Limited Silver and Pentax-A* 85mm f1.4 at f2.8, 1/90s, and ISO 100

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Sunflower by Jason Doss, on Flickr
Pentax K-1 mII and Pentax-M 50mm f1.4 at f2.8, 1/250s, and ISO 100
 
Jason, as regards double exposure, I think the person on the other forum may have the right idea. This photo was taken on a calm morning, but if it was windy, I think the background would stay sharp enough and a double exposure might capture movement of the foreground reeds, or whatever those are. I'd go back and try it but they are 350 miles from my house.
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  • PENTAX - PENTAX K-5
  • 21.0 mm
  • ƒ/8
  • 1/320 sec
  • Pattern
  • Auto exposure
  • ISO 100
 
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