April 2008
Intermediate to advanced
176 pages
5h 45m
English
Content preview from Practical Artistry: Light & Exposure for Digital Photographers
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100 Selecting Shutter Speed
Creative Use of Motion
Creative Use of Motion
As you gain experience in creatively portraying mo-
tion, it’s likely you’ll sometimes want to consider the
amount of time it will take for a moving object to travel
across your photo. If you choose this amount of time as
your shutter speed, you’ll see a large trajectory of mo
-
t
ion of the object in the finished photo (see the photo
of the setting moon on page 102 for an example).
In relation to shutter speed, you should always be
thinking about how fast an object in motion is travel-
lin
g, and how this speed relates to your shutter speed.
Objects in motion over time are among the most im-
p
ortant elements in any photo (unless you are photo-
g
raphing still lifes, statues, or rocks). Flowing water,
fast-moving clouds, running vehicles, people: they all
move. Since motion is such an important part of life
and photography, you should consider what you can
do in each photo to maximize the impact of the mo
-
tion that you are capturing, and also the relationship
of the motion you are capturing to the framing of your
photo.
S
o I’m suggesting you think about how far t
he object
will travel during the length of time of your exposure
in relation to the area that your photo is capturing; in-
t
eresting visual interactions between the trajectory of
101
Selecting Shutter Speed
a moving object and the background of the ...
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