Showing Motion

In this photo I used a high shutter speed. I was trying to stop the motion of the snowflakes falling. Some flakes are clear and some blurry. I believe this is because of the varying distances and angles of each flake.

In this series I was trying to stop the motion of my dog and the falling snow. I like the effect in the first two where the snowflakes stand out against his black fur. In the bottom two I was trying to pan along with him to make the background blurry, but I think I needed a slower shutter speed.

In the above series I was moving the camera with a slower shutter speed to create the blurring. I liked how the birdhouse photo turned out with the image still recognizable, but the streaks leading into the image. I got this effect from twisting the zoom on the camera lens.

I used a faster shutter speed to stop the motion in this photo. Her hands are blurry, but the rest of her is fairly clear. I found these shots tricky because her movements were both horizontal and rotational.

In this shot I was trying a slower shutter speed and trying to pan along with her movements, but again with the rotation I was not able to get her clear and the background blurry. I think that I will try this on something that is moving at a consistent rate on one plane, like a car driving by, to practice.

My timing was a bit off, but it is kind of interesting to have her leaping in from the edge. She is more clear in this one since her movements were more linear.