How to achieve this background?

[radvis]

Hey everyone

What shall I do to achieve such effect of water on the background like on the first or last picture here

http://www.jansochor.com/photo-blog.aspx?id=vodou-catholic-ritual-haiti

Thanks. Any help would be appreciated

Radekvis

[Bula Matali]

My guess would be it's a combination of shutterspeed setting and maybe a lil PP.
Have a look here at how running water looks at various shutterspeeds. Look at the 4th example (shots of a waterfall at various shutter speeds) http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=414088

[Mike]

Here's the exif info from the 1st shot:

Camera Make: NIKON CORPORATION
Camera Model: NIKON D200
Image Date: 2007:07:18 20:23:17
Flash Used: No
Focal Length: 70.0mm (35mm equivalent: 105mm)
Exposure Time: 0.013 s (1/80)
Aperture: f/4.5
ISO equiv: 160
Exposure Bias: -0.33
White Balance: Manual
Metering Mode: Matrix
Exposure: aperture priority (semi-auto)

So as you can see the shutter speed is 1/80sec. The speed of the falling water does the rest.