Shutter Speed: Action (Blurring and Panning)

Blurring to show motion. Freezing motion is Panning to show motion. Panning the camera one way of representing it, but not the only way. – moving it in the same direction as the subject’s In fact, freezing motion sometimes eliminates movement during the exposure – is another way movement altogether so that the subject seems to of showing motion (bottom right). The be at rest. Allowing the subject to blur can be a background will be blurred, but the subject will be graphic means of showing that it’s moving. sharper than it would if the camera was held steady.

Slow shutter speed, subject blurred. The Fast shutter speed, subject sharp. direction a subject is moving in relation to the camera Photographed at a faster shutter speed, the same can affect the sharpness of the picture. At a slow jogger moving in the same direction is sharp. During shutter speed, a jogger moving from left to right is not the shorter exposure her image did not cross enough sharp. of the film to blur.

Slow shutter speed, subject sharp. Here the Panning with the jogger is another way to keep her jogger is sharp even though photographed at the slow relatively sharp. During the exposure the shutter speed that recorded blur in the first picture. photographer moved the camera in the same direction Because she was moving directly toward the camera, that the jogger was moving. her image did not cross enough of the film to blur.