The Grade 9 GCT class has received a new assignment. This assignment that I present to you is based on capturing motion with our cameras. We grabbed our cameras and precisely controlled our settings so we can capture motion in many ways such as panning, stop motion, exaggerated movement or blurring it to show the movement, but each had various different settings that we had to manipulate with along with the subjects we used. Capturing movement through the lens can be skeptical but as we grow into it, it can be a little nifty to do.

This photo here shows the work of capturing panning. This type of photograph is very versatile in camera movement. The technique to capture this is to pan your camera with the moving object, the results should be a sharp object with a blurred background. It gives the viewer a feeling of speed through the photo. For this photo I used a slower shutter speed like 1/30 seconds, when capturing faster objects such as cars. I suggest using a fast speed like 1/125 or anything above that. You can manipulate the camera by using the appropriate settings for your shot like using the flash for sharpness and keep in thought if it would be an advantage to use a tripod.

In this photo, we have captured my friend Allyza with scarfs flying all over the place. This photograph can be called a stop motion photo. We have basically paused the movement of the scarfs in a picture. The technique to capturing this to keep your camera steady (suggest using a tripod) and have your camera settings on burst or continuous shooting. You also need to use a fairly fast or higher shutter speed depending on what you are trying to capture, slower movement can freeze at about 1/100 seconds and faster movement can freeze at about 1/1000 seconds. I spam the camera and hope for a great shot captured from all the shots I took. 

This shot captures a lot of emotion from the model which is called the exaggerated movement shot. A model can exaggerate and look vigorous in this one capture by looking like they are anticipated by something or even just simply posing by stretching themselves out not normally. The model's face in this photo also shows a lot of exaggeration from the expression, as well as her hair flying everywhere and her hand being in such an awkward position. 

This photo was blurred to show the movement. In the library we grabbed a big thick book to flip the pages. As you can see the book is in motion while the model is in complete focus. The number one tip to capture this is to use a slower shutter speed. Your camera needs that extra amount of time to allow the camera's shutter to open long enough for it to visualize the movement of your subject. While capturing these types of photos we experienced that we had to play around with the iOS settings.