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Hi all, as part of my next assignment the theme is movement and I have to produce 10 prints!

My ideas are photographing shoppers in birmingham & cars at dusk. I'm hoping to achieve motion blur, can anyone give me tips on settings to try please? I'm going out to practise Sunday evening on various bridges above dual carriageways.

I have a canon eos 1100d with standard kit lens but I also have a 50mm 1.8 lens

Thanks
 
Pretty simple to acheive this effect.

Go for low ISO, f8.0 (for starters) and shoot in Tv/M.

Get your camera set up on a tripod, set your focus using AF then switch the lens to manual focus (saves the lens hunting for focus for the same shot).

Set shutter to timer (unless you have a remote shutter release) and dial in a shutter speed, at a guess you'll need a minimum of 1 second to get some decent motion blur if you're shooting at dusk (obviously longer as it gets darker) but it may just be a case of trial & improvement.
 
I was playing a while back and came across a neat little effect caused by moving the camera during exposure rather than the subject moving .. I dont know if it will help you with an idea or not..

I bought two cheap little clip on LED desk lamps and used them to illuminate a flower arrangement.

I shot late at night with only the LED lights as a light source, then setting a relatively long shutter speed I moved the camera down and then up again as smoothly as I could during the exposure..

This is the result.

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Russ77 said:
Pretty simple to acheive this effect.

Go for low ISO, f8.0 (for starters) and shoot in Tv/M.

Get your camera set up on a tripod, set your focus using AF then switch the lens to manual focus (saves the lens hunting for focus for the same shot).

Set shutter to timer (unless you have a remote shutter release) and dial in a shutter speed, at a guess you'll need a minimum of 1 second to get some decent motion blur if you're shooting at dusk (obviously longer as it gets darker) but it may just be a case of trial & improvement.
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Thanks, some good info there thank you xx
 
iancandler said:
I was playing a while back and came across a neat little effect caused by moving the camera during exposure rather than the subject moving .. I dont know if it will help you with an idea or not..

I bought two cheap little clip on LED desk lamps and used them to illuminate a flower arrangement.

I shot late at night with only the LED lights as a light source, then setting a relatively long shutter speed I moved the camera down and then up again as smoothly as I could during the exposure..

This is the result.
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Wow looks brilliant x
 
duttytd said:
Im guessing your from Birmingham. What college are you at and what is it you are studying?
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Hi there, yeh I'm a brummy! I'm studying intermediate photography at the botanical gardens & I'm also doing the ncfe photography in September through birmingham adult education service x
 
chez1980 said:
Hi there, yeh I'm a brummy! I'm studying intermediate photography at the botanical gardens & I'm also doing the ncfe photography in September through birmingham adult education service x
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Oh i didnt realize they done courses at the gardens. Will have to check it out. Thanks. :-D

Tony.
 
duttytd said:
Oh i didnt realize they done courses at the gardens. Will have to check it out. Thanks. :-D

Tony.
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Yeh on their website look under adult education! It's really good, I'm doing a portrait class in July! Where about in brum u from??
 
duttytd said:
Oh i didnt realize they done courses at the gardens. Will have to check it out. Thanks. :-D

Tony.
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Yeh on their website its under adult education, it's really good and I'm doing portrait class on July there!
Where about in brum are u??
 
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