Photography Theory and Practice - Motion in photos

Motion in photos

When taking a photo and focusing on movement and time there are a lot of factors you need to thing about for example if you want to capture a moving thing as your main focus and wanted to show the moment then you would take the photo on a low shutter speed which would create motion blur showing to the viewer that there is movement present. Another things you have to think about if you want to capture something with moment but show it as if it didn't have movement for example if you wanted to take a photo of a footballer running but wanted to capture the whole detail of the footballer you would take the photo with a high shutter speed, this would capture the main focus with now sign of moment creating a statue like image. when taking a photo and you want to capture blur but also want to capture a model in the photo to make it so the model isn’t standing there for hours you can capture the models details with a flash which keeps the image of the model there while movement and blur is being created in the photo.

  


Harold Edgerton
  

Harold Edgerton was a photographer who was born in 1903, one of the most famous things Harold Edgerton is known for is the photo above (apple being shot) and another thing he’s famous for is the milk drop on cranberry juice which creates a slow motion colour change. He was one of the first photographers to focus on capturing movement. He would have done this by using a very fast shutter speed so it captures the moving target as a still image, having the shutter speed fast it removes and motion in the photo and give the main focuses a statue like feel.

Seth Casteel 
 

Seth Casteel is a photographer who specializes in taking photos crating movement into statue like images. One of his most famous projects which does this is a project called Underwater Dogs this involved throwing a ball into a pool causing the dog to chase it and Seth Casteel would catch the dog as it jumps. Like Harold Edgerton to make sure that the moving main focus looks statue like the shutter speed would have been very fast.

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