P.A.Moed of pilotfishblog.com selected ‘Motion’ as the theme for the Lens-Artists-photo challenge.
It’s the most important topic for a photographer worth the salt.
Motion can be captured in many ways in photography.
Movement can include any areas of your photo that are moving.
Motion photography depends on your decision, whether you want to freeze the movement of the subject. (fast shutter) or you want to blur the movement. (slow shutter) or you wish to have intentional camera movements.
This decision of yours depends on what you are trying to achieve.
Fast shutter speed is used in
Fast shutter speed is used in sports photography, wildlife photography and street photography or for that matter any kind of action photography.
Slow shutter speed is used in
Slow shutter speed is used in catching light trails, the soft silky appearance of waterfalls, star trails, long exposure daylight photography, panning, moving clouds and light painting.
Intentional camera movements used in
Abstract photography.
Fast shutter speed (freezing time)
Here the action is frozen.
With this speed, you can show the magical moment, that your brain normally fails to recognize.
Burst mode can catch the ‘decisive moment’ in any situation.
“A snapshot steals life that it cannot return. A long exposure creates a form that never existed”
Dieter Applet
Slow shutter speed
Here the photographer can become creative.
By lowering the shutter speed, motion blur is achieved.
Motion blur has many types.
Blurred subject with the background in focus
In the above image, the cyclist is blurred while the background is in focus. Both the lions are well-focused.
Blurred background with the subject in motion (panning)
Foreground and background blurred
Intentional camera movements (ICM)
Here the camera is moved during exposure for an artistic effect.
The resulting image shows a streaking effect.
The top one is the original, and below it, is the abstract pattern.
A note
These days anything can be achieved with powerful photography related software.
Looks like photographer need not struggle to achieve the required talents.
Any thoughts on this aspect of photography?
Thank you for your visit.
Take care, my friend.
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Philo
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This post is part of Pattimoed’s LAPC #212 Motion
Philosophy Through Photography 
Love your selections.
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Thank you so much.
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Excellent selections. Blurred subject in front of building is my fave.
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Thank you John.
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Very interesting examples of your technique.
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Thank you Dolly.
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You are welcome, dear friend.
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I like where you went with the challenge. You have described the action
of motion in photography so well. Your photographs are perfect for motion.
Isadora 😎
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Thank you my friend.
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Great explanations and examples, Philo. I enjoyed your post!
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Thank you for this lovely theme.
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Nicely done Philo, your explanations are succinct and well delivered with their matching examples. My favorite is your opener, a really fun image! I think software gives us a nice option for creative expression but I’m a bit of a classicist with a strong preference for using the camera to create effects. That said, I also use software when it helps me to achieve my “vision” !
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Thank you Tina Schell for your kind and encouraging words.
I love your thoughts.
Yes.One must be classicist to be original.
And the satisfaction one gets is unexplainable.
Softwares can be used as an accessory.
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These are great pictures Philo – I especially liked reading your narrative and seeing the examples. By chance, was the first one taken by a drone?
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Thank you Sylvia Bacon .
No drone was used.
The first image you meant the featured image or rotating fire cracker?
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Wow… the Burst mode image!! Slow SS is fun! 🙂
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Thank you Amy.
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Excellent examples and well explained, Philo! Well done!
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Thank you AC for your kind words.
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Great pictures Philo! If you understand Photoshop, it might be easier than doing these in camera. I do have to more about my camera’s technical aspects.
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Thank you Anne Sandler.
I do have photoshop elements and many more.
Photoshop, I avoided because I felt it’s cumbersome. Maybe it’s my mindset.
I agree with you about Adobe photoshop.
One can do unbelievable wonders with it.
And anything is possible with it.
Namaste.
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I guess I missed this post. So sorry Philo. You have a great deal of information in this post and excellent photos to illustrate them. I did try panning after getting this challenge and totally failed. Do you have any suggestions? Great post on this challenge!
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My apologies for this delayed reply. I missed your comment.
Thank you very much for your kind words, Anne Sandler.
I guess you have a DSLR camera.
Panning is trial and error.
It depends on the speed of the moving object. Camera Mode is in shutter priority. Let the shutter speed be 1/30th of a second be the starting point and the camera must be on burst mode.
I am sure you must be knowing the panning technique.
The subject must be moving across your field of view.
You move your body along the moving object at the same time shooting in burst mode.
Out of say 20 to 30 frames, one frame will surely be to your satisfaction.
The important thing is one must practice a lot.
Please let me know once you perfect the practice.
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Thanks Philo! Your comment gave me one important bit of instruction: move my body along with the object I’m tracking, and the shutter speed. Thanks!!
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You are welcome Anne Sandler.
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