1. Action Project

2. Panning
Not that kind of panning!

3. action
Panning
Camera
Shutter speed: 1/30-1/125 (Based on speed of the object) 1/30—slow walk, moving hands, etc. 1/60—running, bike, slow car, skateboard 1/125—Car over 40 mph, airplane, etc. Aperture: Whatever the needle tells you Technique: Smoothly follow the path of action with your camera. No sudden starts or stops. Action must be moving

4. Panning
Shutter speed: 1/30-1/60 Aperture: Whatever the needle tells you Technique: Smoothly follow the path of action with your camera. No sudden starts or stops.

5. Panning
Shutter speed: 1/30-1/60 Aperture: Whatever the needle tells you Technique: Smoothly follow the path of action with your camera. No sudden starts or stops.

6. Blurred Pan
Shutter speed: 1/4-1/15 depending on speed of subject. Creates a more impressionistic action photo. Aperture: Whatever the needle tells you Technique: Execute like a pan. Stay with the action. Don’t worry quite as much about smooth motion.

7. Blurred Pan
Shutter speed: 1/4-1/15 depending on speed of subject Aperture: Whatever the needle tells you Technique: Execute like a pan. Stay with the action. Don’t worry quite as much about smooth motion.

8. Blur to Show Motion
Shutter speed: 1/8-1/30 depending on speed of subject Aperture: Whatever the needle tells you Technique: Steady camera by either good stance or tripod. Background should not be blurry. Only the action should be blurred.

9. Blur to Show Motion
Shutter speed: ¼ for a photo such as this. Aperture: Whatever the needle tells you Technique: Steady camera with a shutter speed this slow can only be accomplished with a tripod.

10. Blur to Show Motion Shutter speed: 1/30-60
Aperture: Whatever the needle tells you
Technique: This picture would be tough because you’d need to catch the kids at the action’s peak to insure focus on them. You would take many and hope one comes out.

11. Stop action
Shutter speed: 1/250-1/1000 or faster. Aperture: Whatever the needle tells you Technique: Sharp focus. Shoot at the peak of the action.

12. Stop action
Shutter speed: 1/250-1/1000 or faster. Aperture: Whatever the needle tells you Technique: Sharp focus. Shoot at the peak of the action.

13. Compelling action is closer
2 ways to get closer
Get closer (best)
Long lens
Get as close as you can to the action without getting yourself hurt. Action is interesting up close because most people only witness action from further away.

14. What makes this action picture appealing?

15. Is this as compelling?
The action is too far away. The background draws attention away from the action. Only the snowboarder in the picture would be interested to look at this (maybe his mom, too). Possibly a girlfriend would pretend to think it’s cool.

16. This is cool
Non-distracting background, action closer, we can actually tell who it is.

17. Could this action shot be better?

19. Depth-of-field
Basically, depth of field refers to the section of a photograph, from the nearest to the furthermost points from the camera, which appears to be in sharp focus.
When a lens is focused on an object, there is some distance in front of the object and some behind which will also be acceptably sharp. This zone of sharpness which includes the subject is called the depth of field.
Check out the
online
dof calc.

20. Larger apertures (more open) shorten depth-of-field.

21. The smaller the aperture, the longer the depth-of-field.

22. The further the subject is away from the camera the longer the
depth-of-field.

23. Smaller aperture (closed down) with subject 40 feet away

24. Same aperture but subject is only three feet away

25. Three pictures illustrating depth of field

27. I did this picture with Carson Famme in the backroom in just a few minutes. I used a 4.5 second exposure so Carson had to write fast. If the room had been darker or the light had been less bright, I could’ve lengthened the exposure to 10+ seconds, which would’ve given more time for painting.
Paint With Light

28. Click on the above link for more inspiration.
Click on the above link for more inspiration.

29. Use tripod
Cable release (screw into hole on shutter button)
Set camera on bulb
Pre-focus camera before dark
In camera light meter will not help you
Turning the light upward or away from the camera will give you more time to draw but will reduce the clarity of the lines.
Dim the point source by holding a tissue over the light
Experiment with time. Start with 4-5 seconds (if the room is very dark) but take several in increments of 4 seconds.

30. Assignment
Take the following pictures with a 35mm SLR and black and white film
A Blur to Show Motion
A Panning
A Blur Pan
A Stop Action
Low depth-of-field
High depth-of-field
Painting with light