Hi Lynne,
I've never been that good at riding motorbikes, let
alone taking photographs while riding one, so I'm not going to try and
guess how you got this photo! What I can tell you, though, is how to add a little bit
more drama to it. The one feeling I get about this
image is that you're going slow, or alternatively you're using a very fast
shutter speed. I know this because there isn't that much movement in the
road beneath the bike.
One option you can apply to the photograph to
add more drama, though, is to use of the Motion Blur tool in Photoshop. This tool creates blur in a single operation which you can define, and it's
really easy to use. There are a couple of tricks to it. In the
example below I created a duplicate layer of your photograph and then I used
the clone tool to remove the windscreen from the bike.
The next step in the process is to add the motion
blur; in the example below I added about 40 pixels worth of blur and aligned
them with the white lines on the road. Now, add a layer mask to this modified layer and then
start to reveal the original image below. What we want to do is to keep all the
details of the motorbike, including the original windscreen and rear-vision
mirror, but continue to see the new blurred road. Hopefully about now you'll have an image which makes
it look like you were going a lot faster than you were.
By blurring the road some more you have removed the
distraction of the road’s surface texture and now it's more likely your audience will
focus on the motorbike in the rear-vision mirror.
Cheers for now, Anthony.
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