Commons talk:Photo challenge/2017 - August - Panning

Strip Photography in the Panning Contest

Image captured using digital strip photography, which I would like to submit

Is strip photography allowed in this contest? To quote Rochester Institute of Technology Professor Andrew Davidhazy:

A common way to photograph subjects which are in motion when we wish to blur the background but not the subject, is to pan while the shutter makes the exposure. The effect of panning, or following the movement of the subject, is that it's [sic] image is relatively stationary with respect to the film while the image is recorded on the film and thus a sharp image is recorded even with a relatively long exposure time.

Another way to accomplish a similar effect is to keep the camera stationary but move the film while the exposure is being made. If the film is moved so that the image is stationary with respect to the film, a sharp image can be recorded which looks very much like it had been made with a "panned" camera.

It is on this latter principle that photofinish "strip" cameras operate. Specialized panoramic and aerial mapping cameras also depend on the same principle. Many technical and scientific cameras also record subjects in motion by moving the film to record sharp images during a relatively long exposure.

I would like to submit File:Strip photo of San Francisco Cable Car 10.jpg, shown above, which is not panned but captured using an industrial line scan camera. The effect is similar to panning in that the background is composed of abstract horizontal lines, while the subject remains sharp. dllu (t,c) 06:03, 6 August 2017 (UTC)

dllu, I would accept it. The vehicle/people are panning. While technically the background isn't motion blurred and the camera doesn't move, there is some similarity in an inverted kind of way. -- Colin (talk) 19:18, 7 August 2017 (UTC)

I would be fine with it as well. --Jarekt (talk) 11:43, 8 August 2017 (UTC)