Gross Motion Blur
In the example here, the motion blur is so strong that it is an inextricable part of the image. In fact, it is due to a slow shutter speed and a panning action.
The immediate issue is whether or not the photograph makes it at all. Does it succeed, or rather could it succeed with post-production help? At this degree of motion blur, there are no generalizations. Everything is in the specific. Opinion also tends to be specific, and personal. Let’s say that in this case (a mistake, actually, as I had the shutter speed set slower than I had thought) I had intended the picture to be sharp and was disappointed that I had got it wrong, but that later I grew to like it. The problem, again always specific, was that there was no anchor-point ...
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