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Chapter Ten

Active action shots

Most photography enthusiasts tend to photograph people doing various actions without arousing their attention. The reason for this tendency is due to the inertia that most people show when they stand in front of the camera, and they pretend to smile and pause in an attempt to make a beautiful picture of them. Hence the photographer's tendency to kidnap some natural moments) of people without making them. The suggestion of movement in the picture breathes life into it. How many pictures of athletes have we seen jumping and their movements are frozen thanks to a quick shutter pause? And you still feel when you look at their pictures as if they will actually jump. As you know through experience and watching what will happen after they jump, so you still feel as if you are in the same field in which the event took place. Regardless of the visual effect of the active movement, there is the aesthetic effect, as the photographed subject appears through his features and movements as if he is unaware of the movements that emanate from him, because he is preoccupied with observing himself with the work he is doing, indifferent to the camera that follows him and records his movements.

It is that the portrayal of activist movement is not easy. You have to photograph the athlete, for example, several consecutive shots while he is performing a distinctive movement in order to get a picture that satisfies you. Even professionals do not hope to take only one photo of an active subject that will be the successful photo, but rather they take dozens of photos of the event they are photographing until they get only a few photos that can be considered successful, while the rest are of less importance and success. Therefore, do not skimp on your camera with films, the cheapest thing, and among all your photographic purchases, as it is the most important.

Pictures of many movies

The portrayal of the active movement can not be predicted only after seeing the negative. Many of the movements come as normal without anything special, and few contain something exciting and fun. Shutter speed is the most important factor in creating a successful photo of an active action, and aperture comes in second place. Therefore, you should not use a slow motion film that limits your choice of an appropriate shutter speed. There are times when you find yourself needing to use a fast shutter speed with a small aperture for a deep depth of field, which can only be achieved when you are using fast film.

How do you suggest movement?

If you study the motion of anything from a small child running around the park to a race car speeding around a racetrack, you will notice that it has two speeds: the speed of the main body moving forward and the speed of the traveling part - the child's legs and the wheels of the car in our example - which is moving faster than the speed of the car. main body. composed

Now how do you freeze motion?

Take the previous car example. Use a very high shutter speed to freeze the movement of everything, so the result appears as if you photographed a racing car standing completely in the middle of the arena without any suggestion of movement, but if you choose a fast enough shutter speed to highlight the body

The main protrusion is sharp, but it is not fast enough to freeze the movement of the wheels, so you will then get an image that suggests movement because the wheels will come slightly blurred

Which gives this suggestion

Now what about our second example? The little boy running around the park, do you use a shutter speed that is sufficient to freeze his entire movement, or do you just use a shutter speed that freezes the body without the legs? You have the choice here to choose what you see fit, because even if you choose the first option, the image can suggest movement because the body is tilted slightly forward. Because no one standing tilts his body forward, only the person who runs does that! .