Is this camera shake? Crawfish shot

[SteveNC]

EXIF Data can be found here by hovering over the image and clicking on the "I" button: http://www.andrawesphoto.com/gallery/8647776_cnGxx#570726175_qhDa6

This was shot handheld, but the crawfish was not moving at all (actually, it is just a shell). Is it camera shake?


http://andrawesphoto.smugmug.com/photos/570726175_qhDa6-XL.jpg

[Ceyber]

I don't think so - I'm going with very low DoF blurring that section to make it look like motion.

[SteveNC]

I don't think so - I'm going with very low DoF blurring that section to make it look like motion.

Sweet! In that case, I did it on purpose :).

[gooble]

It looks like the antenae moved. Camera shake would apply to the whole image not just portions of it. There are portions of the image that look perfectly sharp: the surface it's sitting on, the face and part of the arm.

[nphsbuckeye]

At 1/640 of a second, I doubt that's camera shake...

[gjl711]

Camera shake will affect the entire frame. There is no way that only parts of the frame will get blurred and others not. Think about it. Your moving the entire camera after all. Your seeing the combination of DOF and subjec movement.

[SteveNC]

I would tend to agree with gjl711. Since this was only a shell and the crawfish was not alive (half its body was not present) then I think the subject WAS moving, but due to the wind rather than voluntary movements of a crawdad ghost :).

[tzalman]

Sweet! In that case, I did it on purpose :).
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