I'm not certain this technique will work: panning with slow shutter speed will leave "motion trails" on the subject (in addition to the fore- and background). In the Afghan-motorcycle image, the subject is perfectly sharp/frozen while the fore- and backgrounds are blurred. I'm not sure you can achieve that without fiddling with aperture settings, in addition to shutter-speed settings. Only (D)SLRs are capable of this, as far as I can tell. Saidi On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 3:41 PM, Ashok Hariharan <ashok@parliaments.info>wrote:
On 1/11/10, Simon Mbuthia <simon.mbuthia@gmail.com> wrote:
I also happen to be a photography fan, but I am yet to buy my first camera.. as in a real camera for pro photography, as opposed to the one on my phone :D Anyway, I hope I don't get kicked out of the list for asking this question: do you need a special lens to take a pic like this<http://is.gd/64Jc9>or what magic was used to take it??
Simon --
You don't need a special lens for this ... neither do you need a SLR, though your camera phone is perhaps inadequate
All you need is a camera that supports changing shutter speeds (many cheap point and shoots let you adjust shutter speeds ....).
The technique used in that picture is called "panning" ... the idea is set a relatively slow shutter speed (not too slow ... 1/50 to 1/400 depending on the speed of the subject) in your camera, point it at the moving subject ...focus on the object and move the camera quickly making sure that the moving subject is in the center of the frame and click in the course of the movement.
Heres a video that explains it ...(hopefully ... i havent watched it myself)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzQacE8z1T0 _______________________________________________ Skunkworks mailing list Skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks ------------ Skunkworks Server donations spreadsheet
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