Take a Picture of Moving Object

 If you are new to taking photos of Moving Object, lets cover some general photography tips:

    Learn and understand your camera settings. Even simple digital cameras have an array of settings to adjust from lighting, shutter speed and mode. Take a household object of your choice and take a picture of that same object multiple times, each time change the camera mode, turn the flash off or change the shutter speed.    Take pictures of moving objects, if you live by a busy road try panning shots (hold the camera and follow the vehicle as it crosses your path horizontally).  Take your camera everywhere!     Edit your photos, if you have a good photo editing program you should try to learn the basics such as how to adjust the lighting or make quick changes - you won't need anything to advanced but you'll find that touched up photos can make a simple photo even more extraordinary.

Still photography freezes a scene. You have probably experienced shooting blurry photos usually as a result of wrong camera settings or the object moving while you were taking the photo. Such blurriness is not something you would like to see in a photo but if controlled some blurriness can actually be used to capture and convey the feeling of motion in a still photo.

Shutter speed is what determines if a photo is frozen or blurry. The faster the shutter the more frozen the photo is. The slower the shutter the more motion is captured in the photo in the form of blurriness. Open the shutter for too long and the photo will be completely blurred.

There are two ways to capture motion: to blur the moving object while keeping the background in focus or to blur the background while keeping the object in focus:

Blurring the object, Blurring a moving object captures its motion. If you freeze such a scene with high shutter speed the viewer can not tell if the car is moving or if it is parked. However if you use a slower shutter speed the moving car is blurred and the feeling of motion conveyed.

Blurring the background (panning), Consider the same car from the above example. Another way to convey its motion is by blurring the background while keeping the car in focus. The concept is simple: set the camera to a slower shutter speed. Pan the camera in a way that it follows the car. The car stays still at the same spot in the photo. Then shoot the photo as you continue panning the camera to keep it aligned with the moving car. What is the right shutter speed needed to capture motion? If the object is very fast 1/50 of a second can be all that you need.

It is very important to keep the camera steady when taking photos using slower shutter speeds. Photos that capture motion are impressive. Start with experimenting blurring the moving object.