creating the look of SPEED

<bonita.college DeleteThis @gmail.com> wrote in
> My Photo instructor takes pictures at a local horse track during the
> races for the different owners. She mentioned in class that her
> pictures during the race are always taken so the horse moves from
> "left to right" as it creates the look of speed within the picture!
> My guess is this would also apply with cars too. Something to do with
> the way we look at a page(read). Pictures showing cars travelling
> right to Left don't have the same effect! Hope this helps

That's Euro-centric though. It is the opposite for, say, native readers of
Arabic. Not sure if it matters if you are Chinese.

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Don Stauffer in Minnesota wrote:
> On Jan 30, 10:25 pm, bonita.coll....RemoveThis@gmail.com wrote:
>> My Photo instructor takes pictures at a local horse track during the
>> races for the different owners. She mentioned in class that her
>> pictures during the race are always taken so the horse moves from
>> "left to right" as it creates the look of speed within the picture!
>> My guess is this would also apply with cars too. Something to do with
>> the way we look at a page(read). Pictures showing cars travelling
>> right to Left don't have the same effect! Hope this helps
>
> Yeah, it is one of those rules of thumb that applies to ANYTHING in
> motion- even animals. I am not sure if the effect is actually TRUE,
> but that is sure the rule of thumb, and any picture submitted to a
> salon competition will be judged higher if you follow that rule.
>
> With an animal or many vehicles, one can always flip the shot in the
> editor. But of course shots of vehicles with numbers or logos on them
> will not work for this.
>
> Another similar ROT is to not center the moving object, but allow more
> room to "move" on the right side. That is, put the center of the
> object to left of center of frame.

Hummm. Seems to be that Steeplechase would be an exception, as would
barrel racing. Both have the action going one way, and then the other.
I have never seen a picture of a barrel racer that didn't give an
impression of speed.
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> <bonita.college.TakeThisOut@gmail.com> wrote in
> > My Photo instructor takes pictures at a local horse track during the
> > races for the different owners. She mentioned in class that her
> > pictures during the race are always taken so the horse moves from
> > "left to right" as it creates the look of speed within the picture!
> > My guess is this would also apply with cars too. Something to do with
> > the way we look at a page(read). Pictures showing cars travelling
> > right to Left don't have the same effect! Hope this helps
>
> That's Euro-centric though. It is the opposite for, say, native readers
of
> Arabic. Not sure if it matters if you are Chinese.
>
Chinese, like japanese, is written left-to-right.Sometimes it might be
written top to bottom.


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You decide:
http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=2nr2f6f&s=3
http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=t71mis&s=3

For what it's worth, in my opinion left to right is a good rule of thumb and
she is quite right, however it's not the bible and there are many great
shots taken from right to left. In the examples above, right to left was
the chosen shot and personally I think it works. It's not right or wrong,
it just works.

You will sometimes be unable to have the choice however. For example, at
Silverstone the cars move clockwise (right to left, unless you are on the
inside). You can Photoshop it, but why do it unless it makes a significant
difference to the shot (and of course, if the car is sponsored, the graphics
will be backwards)? If shooting a horse, although the horse and rider
appear symmetrical, this is not true and you can change the look just by
flipping horizontally. Whether you change it for the better, or the worse,
it's depends.


<bonita.college.DeleteThis@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> My Photo instructor takes pictures at a local horse track during the
> races for the different owners. She mentioned in class that her
> pictures during the race are always taken so the horse moves from
> "left to right" as it creates the look of speed within the picture!
> My guess is this would also apply with cars too. Something to do with
> the way we look at a page(read). Pictures showing cars travelling
> right to Left don't have the same effect! Hope this helps
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Ali wrote:
> You decide:
> http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=2nr2f6f&s=3
> http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=t71mis&s=3
>
> For what it's worth, in my opinion left to right is a good rule of thumb
> and she is quite right, however it's not the bible and there are many
> great shots taken from right to left. In the examples above, right to
> left was the chosen shot and personally I think it works. It's not
> right or wrong, it just works.
>
> You will sometimes be unable to have the choice however. For example,
> at Silverstone the cars move clockwise (right to left, unless you are on
> the inside). You can Photoshop it, but why do it unless it makes a
> significant difference to the shot (and of course, if the car is
> sponsored, the graphics will be backwards)? If shooting a horse,
> although the horse and rider appear symmetrical, this is not true and
> you can change the look just by flipping horizontally. Whether you
> change it for the better, or the worse, it's depends.
>
>
> <bonita.college RemoveThis @gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:98b24e08-eab2-4046-a966-805b08d2457f@i12g2000prf.googlegroups.com...
>> My Photo instructor takes pictures at a local horse track during the
>> races for the different owners. She mentioned in class that her
>> pictures during the race are always taken so the horse moves from
>> "left to right" as it creates the look of speed within the picture!
>> My guess is this would also apply with cars too. Something to do with
>> the way we look at a page(read). Pictures showing cars travelling
>> right to Left don't have the same effect! Hope this helps
>

Flipping can have some unintended consequences. Try flipping a photo of
a person mounting a horse, and see how many funny looks it gets from
riders....
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