Assignment+Motion

 ==Motion ==  Motion is one of the hardest lessons the beginning Photography students are faced with, mainly because you don't know you have the picture until after you load it to the computer. There are two basic kinds of action: blurred, and frozen.

Blurred motion is motion that has either the moving subject blurred, or the background blurred. Either way, the subject must be moving. However, using panning (moving the camera to follow the subject, so he appears still, with the background moving) you can create the background blurred, with the subject frozen. This is undoubtly difficult to do, so there is no shame in devoting 25-40 shots to this. The other way is to have the subject still, and everything around him/her moving.

The other form of movement is freezing the subject in motion. Also, it is generally a good idea to keep the subject in focus, for a subject frozen in time that appears fuzzy is just not a very good picture. Great ideas for this lesson are things that you do everyday, but can only sustain for a fraction of a second, like walking. When you walk, one foot is in the air, and one on the ground; if you freeze this, the subject looks like s/he is standing on one foot. Thrown objects also look good, however they are difficult to get in focus, so it might be best if the objects are thrown across the camera, instead of at it. In the example shown, you can see the juggler's pins are frozen in the air, if you know someone who can juggle, this would be a perfect picture!  