Challenge - Movement

This month's challenge is to capture movement. I did a few things to achieve this, one is panning. Panning is where I set my shutter speed to a lower speed, perhaps 1-2 seconds, and follow a moving object after I've fired the shutter. The picture is open for those 1-2 seconds so the moving object should be in focus (or somewhat close) and everything around it should be blurry. You're suppose to see that it's moving.

It was an adrenaline rush to be this close to a moving train as it passed me. The force of it's weight and size shook the ground around me. Again, I practiced panning.



In these pictures, I slowed the shutter speed down to capture the light streaks.



Another technique to cause motion is to take the picture while zooming in or out. I don't think you can do this with a regular point-and-shoot camera. You need to do it manually with the lens.