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(DC 210 shot)

Jeff and Melanie allowed me to sit this one out. The picture was a little too sharp to make it seem exciting. With an SLR I might have slowed the shutter speed way down and "panned with the action" to get the blurred motion effect. With the digital darkroom, you can do the same thing with a filter.
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First, I selected an oval around Jeff and Melanie's faces, and "feathered" the edge a lot (around 20 pixels). I copied that into a layer. Then I went back to the original and selected around the contraption they were sitting in, and copied that into a layer. I blurred the contraption thing slightly using a motion blur filter.
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Lastly I blurred the netire original by a more extreme amount which provides the bulk of the effect. By restraining the blur of the box, and not blurring them, I ended up with a panning effect.
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Another example of the blur filter.

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