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ursulaComment by ursula: Originally posted by Bosborne:
Hi Ursula,
I love this shot, but tell me, where YOU on a swing next to her? I am trying to figure out how else you would have gotten the ''motion'' background. |
Oh, no. I was standing at the side of the swing set. The motion blur in the background is essentiallly the background moving whereas the subject is fixed.
Imagine it like this: you have a ping-pong ball in front of polka-dot paper. Move the ping-pong ball back and forth in a swinging fashion, keep your focus on the ball, what happens to the background? The dots become stripes, the stripes are the same direction/shape as the movement of the ball.
That's the way you do these. Use the camera in Shutter-priority, set to a slow shutter speed (something anywhere from 1/15 sec to 1/60 sec, it's worth experimenting). Focus on a moving subject that's in front of a not so plain background (but not too busy either). Start moving the camera with the subject, and match the subject's speed/movement. Then, just keep moving the camera with the subject and press the shutter. You'll get a lot of failures, but you also get some beauties. The more you do it, the easier it becomes, and the more successes you get.
If this doesn't explain it, let me know, and I'll try explaining it some other way.
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