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Bob Horowitz Mar 26, 2025

Unintentional Camera Movement.

Taken while I was running with a friend through a tunnel on Hawk Hill. As we ran, my finger accidentally hit the shutter button and I ended up with a 1/6 of a second snap of Nicole and the tunnel. A happy accident.

But that led to a tough question: how should I process the resulting photo? Post-processing involves many choices and Lightroom has so many buttons... so I pushed them all, lol.

Anyway, I ended up with four final candidates and I really like them all, for different reasons. My favorites are the first and the last.

#photography

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Greg Hills Mar 26, 2025

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They're all so applicable, but 1st and 4th are the extremes, hanging themselves on the viewer's internal state.

In the first, it can be the rosy light at the end of the tunnel, to the end of all things with the red glare of the hell bomb reflecting on the tunnel wall.

The starkness of the last makes me wonder about that human(oid) figure. Is it really running away, or is that an illusion?

Great montage to start my day with. Thank you!

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Bob Horowitz Mar 26, 2025

@winterknell That's a thoughtful analysis. I agree. The first and last make more of a statement with a capital S. The middle two set a tone with a lowercase t.

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Greg Hills

@BobHorowitz I'm up now and have looked at them on the laptop (a much better screen than my tablet), and still prefer the first - but the second image has grown on me. The reduction of colour encourages introspection. The sunset on the wall might be a human figure in a long robe, one hand held up in blessing or caution, to which the hurrying person is oblivious - or perhaps they are ignoring it.

I'm going to keep coming back to look at these today, though I'll stop yammering about them now!