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What's the Hurry?

Straight photo. Camera with long lens mounted on a motion picture fluid pan head. Combination of electronic flash and time exposure while panning the camera.

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Silvino González Morales 3 months ago

Beautiful.

Sieger Joostens 1 year ago

Very good. Also, it's the perfect car for the shot

Aziz Abbasi 2 years ago

Hi tech !, ..Excellent ..

King Douglas Thank you, Aziz.

Alex OBrien 2 years ago

Glad to rediscover this image. I remember seeing it about a year ago and couldn't quite shake it from my mind as I attempted to emulate it. Very inspirational work.

King Douglas Thanks, Alex. I, to, am glad you rediscovered this. Thanks very much.

heru d 3 years ago

incredibel, great job

Roland Larsson 3 years ago

Ah, an old SAAB isn't it? I used to drive one of those myself, the most boring car I have ever owned but it gave me verry litle problems. Well, not much of a comment on the image but, annyway..

King Douglas Yes, a SAAB, but it was new when I photographed it.
Thanks for taking the time to comment.

Doug Roane 3 years ago

this is incredible!

King Douglas Thanks, Doug. So you are from Billings?...Montana? Isn't that about 50 miles south of Roundup?

Doug Roane Yes, that's right King - familiar with the area?

King Douglas Of course I was teasing about Billings being south of Roundup (as the appropriate expression should be Roundup is north of Billings). My sister used to live in Roundup. I've paid several visits to Billings, Roundup and the surrounding territory beginning in the early 50's. My most recent visit was 1996, I think. Big Sky Country, indeed. Have you traveled to every corner of the state? Is Montana your birth state?

Cheers,

jak 3 years ago

keeeeeeeeerrrrreeeeeeeeeeeeeennnnn..
excelent..

King Douglas Thaaaaaaaaaaannnnnnkssss, jak.

Kristoffer Jonsson 3 years ago

really cool style, me like!

King Douglas ...and me thank you, Kristoffer!

Luc Helie 3 years ago

Excellent !!!!

King Douglas Thank so much, Luc.

Andre Arment 3 years ago

Awesome, can't imagine that.

King Douglas Thanks, Andre. I had to imagine it before I could photograph it. :>)

Wulff 3 years ago

Very nice :-)
/Wulff

King Douglas Thanks, Wulff.

Robert 3 years ago

Can a SAAB much more better presented?

Well done!

Greetings Robert

King Douglas Thanks, Robert, for the high praise.

Andreas Suojanen 3 years ago

Wow, so impressive!

King Douglas Thank you, Andreas.

Ivan Tonev 3 years ago

I will just say: LOL :))
Congrats! :)

King Douglas Thank you, Ivan.

Jure Kravanja 4 years ago

superb

King Douglas Thanks, Jure.

Claudio Solera 4 years ago

Great technical quality and nice shot...as usual. Ciao,Claudio.

King Douglas Thank you, Claudio.
Ciao.

Codrin Ceausoglu 4 years ago

Amazing picture...and very good car!
Nice shot, really impresive!
Codrin

King Douglas Thanks, Codrin.

Dominic 4 years ago

Stunning work King!

King Douglas Thanks, Dominic.

Emily Bem 4 years ago

MAD skills, indeed.... ;)

King Douglas Thanks, Emily. I submitted a photo of my kids earlier today and thought of you as I did so, although it's nothing like your work. It's in screening and I have *no* idea if it will be published.

Emily Bem Well, I'm sure it won't be anything like my work....it will be like yours! :)))) I really hope to see it out here! :)

King Douglas I think the screeners have created a temporary (I hope) rule against publishing any more of my photos. I have six, I think, that have been in screening for about 24 hours. I know that's not unusual, but I think at least one of those might have gone straight to the published page if the screeners weren't getting tired of seeing my name.

We'll see. If the photo of my kids doesn't get published, I may post it to Critique just for grins. It is quite different from most of the work I've had published so far and may not meet all of the OE Art Marks.
Thanks for writing. I'm honored that you should do so.

Andreas Kauppi 4 years ago

This is great stuff! Like it a lot=)

King Douglas Thanks, Andreas.

flo 4 years ago

fantastic technic, and fantastic result..

King Douglas Thanks, flo.

Jerry Berry 4 years ago

Another great technical shot.
Namaste

King Douglas Thanks, Jerry. Namaste to you, as well.
K.

Angela Bacon-Kidwell 4 years ago

King, This is so cool. I'm also so impressed by your level of skill. Just perfect. I've never been able to pan before. It always turns out like ----!
:)

King Douglas I used to fence...you know, foil, sabre, epee. I was pretty good. I got the chance to fence a member of the USA Olympic fencing team--just practice. It was like fencing a ghost, except that the ghost's foil was constantly poking a spot just over my heart.

Advertising photography is like fencing...very competitive. Technical skill was something I had to have in common with my friends, colleagues and competitors, otherwise, I couldn't have stayed in business.

But when it comes to artistry (bundling a lot of superlatives into that one word), then I can barely hold my own here on OE...and your work is a prime example of that level of competition.

Panning is difficult to do smoothly, but it helped that I happened to own a very expensive motion picture fluid pan head. I could set the resistance so a slow pan of a constant speed could be maintained.

Thanks,
King

Leif Westling 4 years ago

Wow! This is great.Nice speed lines.

King Douglas Thanks, Leif.

Alexandre Buisse 4 years ago

Amazing! I have rarely seen photos which emphasize the notion of speed so well!

King Douglas Then it worked! Thanks, Alexandre.

lucian olteanu 4 years ago

strong one!...like a......vodka!?

King Douglas Nice comparison, lucian. My vodka photo was recently rejected, though. I thought it looked pretty good. "Didn't tell the OE story" the screeners told me. Are you all teetotalers? :>)
Thanks.

Judy W 4 years ago

I don't think you can take a bad photograph. WOW

King Douglas Judy...you are speaking to the King of snapshots. I love everyday, goofy photos and take plenty (including plenty of bad ones--I once put together a slide show of photos taken accidentally with my elbow while my camera was slung over my shoulder..back in the days when you could do that). I also can do the technically challenging stuff, but I rarely do that for fun.
Thanks.

Martin Gremm 4 years ago

Who knew that a Saab can go this fast? Very cool shot!

King Douglas Thanks, Martin. It's much easier when the SAAB is sitting still...and in the photography studio at that.

Daria Endresen 4 years ago

WOW! That just took my breath away!

Remo Rufer 4 years ago

absolutely amazing!

King Douglas Thanks, Remo.

Andrei Paul Nutu 4 years ago

Nice shot!

King Douglas Thanks, Andrei.

Mal Smart 4 years ago

fantastic technique. great photo. mal

King Douglas Thanks, Mal.

Ralf Stelander 4 years ago

Is it a SAAB? Spectacular photo anyway, I'm also impressed you did this without any photoshop!

King Douglas You don't like SAABs? :>)
Thans, Ralf.

Ralf Stelander There are two Swedish car-brands Volvo and Saab, I'm more of a Volvo guy... =) But I've never seen a Saab look this good before! =)

Koen Pieters 4 years ago

That's strong ! Well done King

King Douglas Thanks, Koen.

Jef Van den Houte 4 years ago

Great rendering of the mouvement here

King Douglas Thanks, Jef.

Fulvio Pellegrini 4 years ago

I didn't know you were a runner, too:-)) Always stunning and incredible
F.

King Douglas Thanks, Fulvio.

MarkJ 4 years ago

a Saab 900 - my car - very good :-)

King Douglas Thanks, Mark. The car belonged to an associate's wife, who was very mad at him when she found out that her car was taken to the studio and photographed without her permission.

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