July 29, 2009

Mt Rushmore Blur

I did it with the Taj Mahal and now I've done it with Mount Rushmore. With a symbol as well known as this, visited by thousands of people a day making essentially the same photograph, I enjoy making quirkier and original fare and the easiest way to do that is to slow down the shutter speed and allow for some randomness to enter into the picture. A little motion blur does the trick for me.

I made about twenty shots at about 1/30th of a second giving the camera a decent bit of shake each time. I knew what I was looking for and upon review, chose this one.

With a little photoshop love it was good to go.

Mt Rushmore, my style.

Make pictures blurry.

2 comments:

Bat said...

Gotta love a postcard location shot in a non postcard way. I tend to shoot the tourists at these kind of places

zonillc said...

One of my favorites. Can't help to see the correlation to the country's dreams falling out of focus, or maybe I just read too much into these things...