With the motivation of young interest in a tree swing I finally discovered a suitable tree limb for hanging a swing in the backyard. The limb is about 30′ high so there’s not a great deal of arc to the swing but it has a really long glide. Since hanging it a couple of weeks ago I’ve been having some fun imagining and executing new ways to photograph our enthusiastic “swingers”. Here’s a few of my favorite photos from this project. In the interest of full disclosure I have to say that the photo captioned “Spinning Swing” is the product of compositing two images to get a more balanced composition along with some cloning techniques to fill in what was a more open tree canopy. I had a very short amount of time to capture the “Spinning Swing” shot before dinner and only got two exposures before I lost my subject, hence the post production enhancing.
Sunshine in motion
Flying High
Spinning Swing