Motion Photography

Over the summer, I got the opportunity to go to Mexico with some really good friends of mine and their moms! I was able to take my dad's really nice DLSR camera with me to document my trip. When I was using the camera down there, I discovered that I have a real passion for photography. As soon as I got home from Mexico, I emailed my school counselor to make sure I got enrolled in our photography course for the upcoming school year.

I absolutely LOVE my photography class. I find so much joy in being able to go out around the school to take pictures and edit them to how I want them to look. It feels super natural having a camera in my hands. I think I get my photography passion from my grandpa. He was always taking pictures of me as a kid and he always has a camera in his hand whenever we are on vacation.

The past week or two, my photography class was working on motion photography. Motion photography is when a picture is taken of something that is moving. We worked on four different Motion Photography techniques: panning, stop action, zoom pan, and motion blur. The panning technique is used when you want a picture's background to be blurry but the thing that is in action will be crisp. The stop action technique is used when you want everything in the photo to be clear. You use zoom pan to make it look like lines in the photo are running out of the photo, and finally you use motion blur to keep everything crisp except for the object is moving. My favorite technique definitely was stop action. I thought it was super cool to get someone moving through the air and get it to be super clear.


















                     
                           
 Motion Blur

Panning

                             Stop Action

                              Zoom Pan