Another factor to keep in mind when taking photos, is motion. Most photos are frozen motion; a flying bird, an insect, or a sprinting cheetah. We think of pictures as a frozen moment in time, which is true but, how the subject in motion is displayed in that moment is an important thing to think about.

In the photo above I used a very fast shutter speed, I captured the water at the peak of its height, making this a great frozen motion photo. The two photos below are of my classmates jumping in the air and just at the perfect time the image was taken, freezing them in the air.

While in my opinion frozen motion is relatively easy, I have a much harder time with blurred motion. To blur motion slower shutter speeds are needed, below is a photo where I failed to properly capture blurred motion.

While the photo above might look cool, it was done wrong. My ISO was much too high and my aperture was slightly smaller than it should’ve been. Motion was blurred correctly but, there isn’t the crispness in the photo that I wanted. So I tried a few different ways to capture the photo. They are below.

I realized that i needed to focus on what motion I was actually trying to blur which was, light. So I went inside where the light would brighten its surroundings, had my friend hold the light source and make few patterns and shapes. The Lightsaber heart is by far my favorite but, I also tried a flashlight which I think turned out nice as well. All photos were taken with a slow shutter speed and a low ISO since the Lightsaber was so bright inside.

Light isn’t the only motion that can be blurred of course, anything moving can be blurred motion. The next two pictures are some that I got while trying to capture a car in motion. In order to keep the cars crisp I had to follow them and use a quicker shutter speed than needed for light.

This is an okay example of a motion blur photo, the truck is crisp while the background is slightly blurred. The background even shows the way the camera was moved when taking the picture.

This photo is an amazing example of motion blur. The car is completely crisp while the background and even the road is blurred. Looking in the car you can even see the woman’s face, clear as day.