Capturing motion in photography?

Read:

The Owner's Manual for your camera. Learn what Aperture and Shutter Priority are and when and why you'd use instead of the other. Learn what it means to shoot in Manual and how to use your camera's light meter.

http://digital-photography-school.com/learning-exp... By learning the Exposure Triangle you'll know how to select the aperture and shutter speed needed.

http://digital-photography-school.com/a-beginners-...

http://digital-photography-school.com/how-to-captu...

http://digital-photography-school.com/mastering-pa...

This is an in-camera multiple exposure I did some time ago.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/drifter45h/1492112883...

Using where you are at is the beginning for your photo essay. Motion is all around you, even at home. And even the most photogenic can be perfect subjects. You've the vocabulary, 'motion' can be panning, or a blurred subject with a sharp background, or stop motion. And now all you need is to get the 'how to show all this in your pics' part in order. You may need a solid place to place your camera, such as a table, shelf or counter top or a tripod even. Or you may even think of holding your camera steady while panning with your subject as a subject walks by with a slow shutter speed set on camera. Or stop action using a fast shutter speed. It's as easy as that. Like place camera on a flat surface, compose the image, take a light reading or set camera on auto,set camera for a series of pics setting camera for slow shutter speeds, say 1/60, 1/30, 1/15/ 1/8 1/4, 1/2, 1 second and have your subject walk through the picture field as you find just the right time to press the shutter. You may have to do this over and over to get just the right image. Or hold the camera and pan with the subject for each pic, each time retaking the pic using a different shutter speed until you have a good series or a good pic. The stop motion is just that. Choose a fast shutter speed and take a pic. The artys-fartsy stuff you have to thimk up yourself. And a basic class, I wouldnt burn up to many brain synapses for the project. Just do some good serious photography.

... sigh... I so wish people could understand that there are no one set of "settings" for any circumstance. The exposure parameters depend of many, many factors. No one can tell you exact settings. About all anyone can say is use a slowish shutter speed. Then you have to match ISO and aperture to conditions.

Here is a camera simulator that should make it easier for you to understand, and it is also of a spinning rainbow wheel.

http://camerasim.com/camera-simulator/

steve

What do you want to do?? Freeze the motion or blur the motion? How fast is it spinning? What are the ambient light levels like?

Do you see that we cannot advise you - we are not there & do not know what the conditions are like. You have a light meter in your camera - use it!!

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Just you need using shutter speed under 1/15