Motion

Blur and movement while taking a photo is usually something you aren’t supposed to do. But like anything else playing around with it and the shutter speed of your camera can give you some cool effects in your photos. In this particular photo I was taking a picture of a lit candle. Holding my camera I focused on the candle then when I pushed the button to take the image I slowly panned my camera down in order to get this movement. I love the way it turned out with the light leaks it’s very ominous looking which I find cool. It looks as tho I edited the picture to look this way but that’s just the magic of playing around with your camera.

I definitely had to try this a few times to get the look I wanted and that’s ok. When taking pictures you usually don’t get the perfect shot in one try. You should take many, try different things and pick the best or your favorite ones later. Another way to mimic motion without actually moving the camera is using a long shutter speed on a subject that is in motion. For example you could use a long exposure time to take an image of cars driving by and because the photo is developed over a longer amount of time, the cars won’t appear in the photo but rather light streaks from the cars head or tail lights. These kind of pictures are very interesting and different. There are lots of subjects you could take movement photos of you just must decide what you want to try! My favorite movement photos are the ones of the stars moving through the night sky. I have never had the opportunity to take one of these images myself because you have to be in a place with little to no light pollution and have your camera shutter open for hours. But I hope one day I will be able to take one of these images myself!