However, when you want to use your digital
camera to take pictures of people or objects in motion, you
have different challenges. In addition to dealing with lighting
and composition, you have to portray motion in your images.
In this chapter, you??™ll learn several techniques for capturing
motion with your digital camera.
Capture Action with Your
Digital Camera
It would be wonderful if you could freeze time for a brief second to capture a
moving object with your digital camera and then, with a snap of the fingers,
resume time. In essence, that??™s what your finished image is in most cases??”a
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slice of time where you??™ve captured the essence of motion, be it
an athlete caught in mid-flight while vaulting the pole in a high
jump or a batter in mid-swing. If you??™ve used a film camera
to photograph action, you may think you can use the same
techniques, and you??™re almost right. Digital cameras are close to
their film-bearing brethren, but digital cameras have to ???think???
after you press the shutter button. Therefore, you have to think
ahead in order to capture a wonderful action scene, such as the one
shown in Figure 5-1, instead of a blurry, unrecognizable image.
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