Photographing Motion by RJ

My Favorite Motion Photo 

Something I learned when panning is that the subject and the camera must be moving in coordination or moving at speed where its not too fast or not too slow. I also learned that using slow shutter speeds is not very good for panning as the subject would be blurry and in panning, you want to keep the subject as sharp as you can and the background blurry. When trying to pan, a good shutter speed for slow moving subjects would be around 1/60 but for fast moving subjects, the shutter speed would have to be around 1/125. While taking continuous shots, you should also have a swift left to right or right to left movement. There are other ways you can move the camera but those are those most common movements.

 Exaggerated motion and stopping motion:
These are my favorite ones because they are very alike and the camera settings needed for these pictures are not very hard to adjust and find out. For stopping motion I had to play around with a lot of shutter speeds but I found out that fast shutter speeds such as 1/250 really capture the motion and make the picture look very sharp and crisp. You can also add a flash to make the picture look sharper. It really depends on the how fast the action you are doing is.That is when you have to adjust the shutter speed to that speed of action.




The biggest thing I learned about capturing blur in motion is that you need to slow down your shutter speed. The reason for movement blur is simply that the amount of time that the shutter of a camera is open is long enough to allow your camera's image sensor to see the movement of your subject. So basically, to capture movement blur in an image, you need to select a longer shutter speed.