Tuesday, January 31, 2017

Wordless Wednesday - Motion

Motion

 The last couple of basketball games I've been working on an old technique to try to capture the motion of the game. This involves slowing the shutter speed down and panning the camera with the players. The hope is to get the player in focus, but those things that are moving fast will be blurred. In basketball that will typically be the hands and feet. Panning the camera also adds a motion blur to the background.
The down side to this technique is that you need to be sitting along the side of the court, which means that you miss some of the action under the basket. Obviously, the up side it that a new level of action is introduced into the image.

9 comments:

  1. Great shots. Actions shots are tough for many. You have the talent for great actions shots.

    Have a fabulous Wordless Wednesday. ☺

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  2. Great action shots! I ahve more to learn about getting this quality

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  3. That's really neat. I used this technique a long time ago and truthfully, forgot about it. Works great, and so dramatic!

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  4. Wonderful photos....my hundred dollar point and shoot could never do this kind of photography....

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  5. Driller, nice job! I haven't taken any action shots but this is something I'd like to do. Have a happy #WW and please feel free to hop over to join my linky party in motion! lol

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  6. excellent! Bet that was a fun game to watch!

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  7. Wow, great captures. You have really captured the dynamics of basketball.

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