So when I shoot a flow, like a rapidly moving car, or a gently flowing river, or a famously gushing fountain (uh oh, I am beginning to sound like Dan Brown), should I “freeze” that motion? Or should I somehow show it?
This is a shot from the other day’s Creative Urban Photography walk, shot as an instant, a moment in time (using S/Tv mode, shot at 1/500th second):
Fountain, moment in time
Uh oh. Matter of taste – but to me, that looks like vomit. Or perhaps a chainsaw.
And here’s the same, now using S/Tv mode at 1/10th second, so it shows a stream:
Fountain, as a flow
Ahhh…. a beautiful silky flow.
So now you tell me. Matter of taste, yes. So according to your taste, should a flow be portrayed as a moment, or as a flow?
Michael, you are right, it is matter of taste. So often some ‘expert’ says that it should be ‘flow’ and that is that.
There are not enough individual drops in photo 1, I like photo 2 better. If it had been a fountain rather than a faucet, it would probably look very good as a high shutter speed shot.