Slow Motion & Still Motion Photography

A kind of photography that is used commonly in photographing sports or really fast moving objects is called motion photography. Motion photography can either be used as a term to capture fast moving subjects into stills or even to create blurs. In order to take a picture with blur, you need to slow your shutter speed down, when you do this you allow the camera’s sensor to take in all the light that it can in the slow shutter. When you do this, you will notice movement, but if you do not adjust your aperture your photo will be over exposed. So with that said, you want do compensate the shutter speed with the aperture. For instance you might shoot at a shutter speed of 2” (“ meaning second) with a aperture of f/20. You want to make sure that in your photograph, you do not find over exposed parts in the photograph. An example of a motion photograph with movement is:

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Another example of motion photography is capturing stills. In this kind of photography, you wont be able to find any blur or notice any motion. In order to do this you want do increase you shutter to speed, to a speed like 1/1000-1/8000 depending your lighting situation. With sports photography, a standard 1/1000 is a good shutter because it is at the point where you will not see blur or motion. With this you want to decrease you aperture so you can have as high of a shutter speed as possibly, a f/2.8 would be the most handy. An example of still motion photography would be:

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The Rule Of Thirds

Now i will be going over some key concepts of art that are often used in photography. First of all is the rule of thirds. The rule of thirds is a a use of composition, what you want to do is imagine that your image is split into 9 equal parts, with two vertical lines and two horizontal lines. For instance:

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With using the rule of thirds, you want to aline you horizon of the picture with the horizontal bottom third, while using the right and left thirds to place you subject in. The main focus of the rule of thirds is to not keep your subject in the central focus of the image, but to expand around the whole imagery. Some people say that using the rule of thirds gives more meaning, power, and emotion to a photograph or art piece in general. 


Here is an example of one of my photos that i have taken with using the key concept of the rule of thirds. 

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As you can see in this picture, if i were to place the close pin in the center, rather than the side it would not give off as must wonder and emotion in the picture. With the subject to one side of the image, you are able to see the background, and the background of photos are usually assistants in helping tell the story of the image.

Part 3: The Functions - The Top

Canon EOS 20D
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The top of the camera holds a lot of function and things to know, for instance the light for the LCD display (#1). This is  a button that you can press and the LCD display lights up when needed in low light areas. Second is the AF/White balance button (#2), this button allows you to select what kind of AF you want the camera to do, for instance "One Shot" where when pressed half way on the shutter release button the camera holds it focus on one non moving object or you can set it on "AI Servo" this function lets the camera auto focus on a moving object and makes it stay on focus. Also the white balance lets you adjust the white balance to different light conditions, it gives options like daylight, night time, incandescent light, and fluorescent light.  Next is the ISO button (#3), this allows you to change the amount of noise int he picture ranging from 100-3200, depending what camera. Next is the shutter release button (#4), see post The Functions - The Front. Next is the top dial (#5) allowing you to change settings quickly like the  shutter speed and aperture.
Next the metering button(#6) helps you adjust to different light environments. Next would be the LCD screen (#7) this is where you can view your current settings and view the changes in settings. This has a metering bar, it also shows your shutter speed, aperture, focusing, and how many pictures you can take. Another thing is the hot shoe flash (#8) this place is where you can attach a external flash. Next is the exposure control dial (#9) this lets you change what mode you are in. Last is the pop up flash (#10 see 

The Functions - The Front)