Wing blur does it spoil shots?

[willing to learn]

Its pretty hard to completely freeze the motion of a flying birds wings unless the light allows a real fast shutter speed. Does wing blur detract from the image. I do not like it I like the action frozzen.
Regards
Colin

[Tormentil]

It does, sometimes, given one a sense of motion.

[Ollie]

It can be very difficult to eliminate wing blur altogether. your first photograph has a touch to much wing blur for my liking but the second one to my eyes anyway is better.

I think it depends on the subject and the setting. As Ben said it can sometimes give a nice sense of motion.
Roger.

[Tony O-P.]

I think it gives the snap a very pleasant sense of motion. So there! Cheers Tony.

[Gill Catton]

I like both. I think it depends on whether you are trying to achieve an illustrative shot or an artistic shot. - Some thing that is excellent or something that is beautiful or if you're really lucky something inbetween.

[squishy]

i think it can sometimes work in your favour... if you want a clear shot of the bird, wings blur just gets in the way, but for illustrating the movement... it creates quite a nice effect

[demicav]

Originally Posted by willing to learn

Its pretty hard to completely freeze the motion of a flying birds wings unless the light allows a real fast shutter speed. Does wing blur detract from the image. I do not like it I like the action frozzen.
Regards
Colin

I think they're fantastic pics, much better than I can do.

[willing to learn]

Cheers for the input here's a frozzen shot with a bit of artistic license Best viewed full size.
Regards
Colin

[ron1863]

I think it depends on the individual viewing the photograph. Some do and some don't.

[zan]

I think it can work, but only if it conveys a sense of directional motion, and not just a blur. I'm not sure it works particularly well in the 2 shots above, but I certainly wouldn't write it off as a technique. There are lots of images that come up in the top wildlife photo competitions that are combinations of frozen action (usually on the eyes) and motion blur, so it definately can work, but I suspect it takes a *lot* of practice to get really effective results.

Hope this makes sense, it's very early in the morning and I'm sat up with a sick dog at the mo so I'm probably not at my most coherent