..Motion is something everyone of us will encounter at some time in our photographic experiences. Motion should not be ignored for everything moves, just some things slower than others. We control motion and it's appearance in two ways, through our f-stops, and through shutter speeds.

F-stops do not control the blurry or not blurry effect of your subject, they solely control depth-of-field. They do, however, determine whether or not you can use a fast or slow shutter speed.

Shutter speeds can create the following effects:

Blurred - Where the subject is blurred and the background is in focus and not blurred. This can be a neat effect for making things look like they are going fast, or to record that this subject was not standing still.

Frozen - The subject may have been traveling at a respectable speed, but since the camera was only taking 1/500 sec. of light, the subject within that small amount of time did not move a noticable amount of distance. This effect is good for capturing lets say a humming bird, freezing it's rapidly moving wings in flight.

Panning - Calls for the camera to pan along with the moving subject so that the subject is not blurred and the background is. This is difficult to perfect, but with some practice you can have the subject appear to be moving and have it in focus and not blurred. This effect calls for you to follow the subject at the same speed it is moving.

 

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