So in university simply copying work from others and handing it in as your own is plagiarism, yet one is prompted to use the work of others to learn from it and creating your own work based on it. In photography the same rules apply, and one can learn trying to recreate work of others in a slightly different setting simply to learn from it yourself. In my opinion this is quite a good rule to get better at photography, to master some specific techniques that you’d otherwise wouldn’t learn.
In quite a few outdoor adverts I have spotted photos of hikers moving on a trail, where the photographer has created movement in the image by ‘dragging the shutter’ to allow the hiker to become a directional blur of colours. This is not a particularly difficult technique to master, however results can vary based on the shutterspeed, experimenting with it yesterday revealed that in most cases a shutterspeed of about 1/10 is slow enough for hikers, yet cyclists require a higher speed due to their own speed. As I was on my own in a forest yesterday I spent some time with a timer remote control and my DSLR on a tripod to capture myself walking past in colourful outdoor gear.
Hiker on a trail at the Holterberg
Hiker on a forest trail (2)
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