Today's email was about how to capture movement, in particular, someone running, so for those who are interested ...
Photographing Runners
Have you wondered how to create more interesting running photos? Follow a few steps to get the best running photos:
- Choose a shutter speed of at least 1/500th of a second to stop motion
- Select your fastest drive mode (burst rate)
- Shoot many photos.
Over the past few months I've done quite a lot of photography involving movement, not only of the dogs, but also of my grandchildren playing football, and I have numerous photos I could have used for this prompt. However, today was a rather stormy day, with lots of thunder, lightning, rain, wind and hail. Not really the most conducive for being outside and taking photos of the dogs running. Actually, I don't think I would have been able to convince Bella to chase the ball while there was thunder, as she has become increasingly more and more frightened of the electrical storms since we've been down here, and doesn't like to leave my side - literally.
I was reading while it was raining at one point in time, and couldn't work out what was making these strange noises I was hearing. Being from far north Queensland and not experiencing hail, it took a few minutes to realise what was happening. First stop - close the roller doors to the garage and other windows in the house, second stop - grab the camera! Wrong. Camera is in the shed so it was back to using the iPhone. Unfortunately I didn't manage to get any "good" shots. In my defence it was windy, raining and hailing, and I had two dogs underfoot while I was getting wetter and colder. Not a lot of time to experiment with angles, focussing, apertures or depth of field.