Comments on: Left, right, yellow, white

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:24:08 +0000

Um… surely it could be either?

1) Looking out the left hand window facing backward, driving in the lane close to the barrier.

2) Looking out the right hand window facing forward, driving in the far side lane (with a bit of zoom to see across the road)

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 06:12:47 +0000

You make a good point Anonymous. There’s a flaw however. From the angle of the photo the amount of zoom would have to have been substantial.

The amount of zoom necessary would have created a huge depth of field causing far more blur than the motion blur you see in the photo.

Good point nevertheless.

By: cara

cara — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:15:07 +0000

Yep. Backwards. Deffo.

By: Rob (Inukshuk Adventure)

Rob (Inukshuk Adventure) — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:05:18 +0000

Wot he sed!

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 10:41:38 +0000

Thank-you all for your comments. Please take a look at today’s post for my elaborate answer to the question.

@Marius : Yup, indeed she was.

@Beverly: Overtaking cars across two lanes of oncoming traffic on a heavily-used, winding mountain pass while taking photos from the window sounds like some hard-core driving.

@harrisek: Thanks for your rational. Following on from my reply to Beverly above: motion-blur aside, I think the entire photo would be a massive blur if I were attempting such a maneuver.

By: harrisek

harrisek — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:02:50 +0000

I meant to say, “objects on the left side of the photo show less motion blur than the closer objects on the right of the photo”.

By: harrisek

harrisek — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 07:59:15 +0000

I think you are on the right side of the road driving forward with camera pointing forward because distance objects on the left side of the photo show less motion blur than the closer objects on the left of the photo. No idea why you are on the wrong side of the road.