Vehicle in Motion assignment

Vehicle in Motion 25 points

3 Photos, Due September 14

The purpose of this assignment is to practice playing with a slow shutter speed and a moving object.

Find a safe spot on a corner or side of the road. You'll want traffic to be going 35-50 miles per hour, the further back you are, the faster you want the cars to be going.

Make sure it's during the daytime.

Set your camera to:
ISO 200
Shutter priority or manual mode
Shutter speed: try 1/10, 1/15, 1/30 (or more or less)

As the car goes past you, try to keep the car in the same spot in the frame as you click the shutter. The goal is to capture the car crisply but a blurry background due to the slow shutter.

Take at least 40 shots.

Often when you look at a photo and think it is sharp on the small LCD screen, it will appear blurry when you get back to the computer. Zooming in to inspect the photo will help avoid this.

Edit in Photoshop/Camera Raw. Crop photo to 5x7.

Take your three best and upload them to Flickr. Title them, Vehicle in Motion.