Capturing Motion in Pictures

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One of the most challenging aspects in photography is capturing motion: may it be a top spinning in frenzy, or a ballerina doing an Arabesque, clicking away at the exact time with your subject positioned the very way you want is such a daunting task.

Now, you might want to capture motion in varying degrees, like freezing a car about to crash at stand-still, or a baseball player going for a run with the background all blurry. PictureCorrect.com offers some surefire techniques you can use to come up with awesome results.

• Freezing the Motion - remember the "car about to crash" example mentioned earlier? No? Well what if you want to capture an eagle about to swoop a snake on film? Of course, you'd want the image perfectly clear, no blurry parts whatsoever. To get that, just set your shutter speed to 1/300th of a second. To freeze an object that's moving really fast, just set your shutter speed at 1/1000th of a second or faster.
  
• Motion Blur of the Whole Scene - If you want to blur EVERYTHING (the foreground, the background, the works), you should opt for slower shutter speed, like 1/100th of a second.
  
• Motion Blur of the Background With a Clear Subject - many photographers regard this as a very hard technique. Take note, hard, but not impossible. Set your camera to a slower shutter speed, and move the camera at the same rate as the moving object. As said earlier, it's rather tricky and might require loads of film (if you're into manual cameras), patience and well, practice BUT it can be done.
  
• Motion Blur of the Subject - If you want your subject all blurry, but your background really clear, just set your camera at a very long shutter speed. Oh, and a tripod is needed here too. What you do is set your camera on your tripod, set the self-timer (it's around ten seconds, approximately). According to PictureCorrect, "By setting the self-timer the camera automatically takes the photo after somewhere around 10 seconds so you don't have to hold it."
  

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