How to make your camera move ...

There is a saying: "There is emotion in motion", so why not try to create some emotion into your photography by creating motion.

There are at least 4 different ways you can create motion in a shot.

1. Keeping the camera stationary whilst increasing the exposure time of something that is moving: a waterfall, hot air balloons floating, people walking and so on. This will cause the moving element to blur whilst the stationary elements remain still;
2. Pan with a moving object - cars, birds flying and so on. This will make the moving object stationary (relative to the camera) whilst blurring the stationary background (since the camera is moving);
3. Not pan with anything moving, but simply moving the entire camera during exposure; and
4. Adjusting the zoom during exposure.

Here are some images that show methods 1, 3 and 4. I would love to hear how you went with method number 2.

Long exposure

Moving the camera during exposure

Changing the zoom during exposure

Here are a couple of tips to get you started. When moving the camera during exposure - by having the camera attached to a tripod you reduce camera shake and the motion is "cleaner". Also when changing the zoom during the exposure, practise twisting the zoom in the given time before shooting live. Experiment with zooming in and then take another shot where you are zooming out during exposure and see which effect you like best.

have fun :-)

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