Another action shot

Action photography is a way capturing and conveying motion. The world around is in motion, and we have to find creative ways of capturing movement in our pictures. Some obvious ways are subject placement, and timing. Another tool that helps to convey motion is shutter speed. *Shutter speed is the main tool photographers have for controlling motion capture and blur. Shutter speeds needed to freeze action differ greatly based on the subject and the subject's relation to the camera. For example, to freeze splashing water you may need a shutter speed of 1/1000 of a second.

Above are two exampled of action photography. In both of them I was freezing obvious motion.

bad weather continued..

My last post I talked about photographing in the rain, and showed some of my pictures I have taken. I started to get curious about how to take better bad weather photo's, and I did some research online. I found a lot of really neat pictures in the rain. So, here are some for you to enjoy:)

*Please note that these pictures are not taken by me!

rain, rain..

Taken in my driveway, this picture shows my road and the corn/bean field behind it. It had just rained, and this gave the picture an "eerie" feel. I really like how you can tell the road has been wet from the rain, because it is normally very hard to capture. Unfortunately, this is one of my best attempts I have had photographing in bad weather. Below, is another attempt...

In the picture above (yes, it is a moose) you can see the rain hitting the water. I was at the zoo and the weather decided to be difficult; So most of my pictures ended up looking like this. I also will point out the way the water rippled while the moose was drinking.