Picture of the Week

A once-a-week look back at some of my favorite photos.

Folk Dancing (Jun 2022)

Smoky Valley High School students perform a Swedish folk dance downtown during Midsummer's Day. I used a slow shutter speed to try to capture a sense of motion thru motion blur. I tracked the movement of the lead couple, hoping that they would be sharp while everyone else would be blurred. I was partially successful: the girl is perfectly sharp, but her partner is blurred.

Motion blur photography with slow shutter speeds is a challenging technique: it's not unusual to take 40 or 50 shots just to get one good image.

Pentax K-3
SMC Pentax DA 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 Zoom
ISO 200 | 1/30 sec, f/11 @ 135mm
No. 0712