Motion Capture Techniques
February 24th, 2009
I’ve been pulling together illustrations for an ebook I was hired to write. I’m going into a lot more detail, and demonstrating some more advanced techniques in the book. I’ll post here when it’s available for download. Here are some motion capture samples:
There are several ways to capture motion in still photography. The first, and probably most popular, is to freeze the motion so you can see the detail, as I did to capture the motion of Dani’s dress while she was spinning around. Use fast shutter speeds for this technique. 1/400th and faster works nicely. These were shot at 1/800th and 1/500th, respectively.
Another common technique is to intentionally show the motion blur, as I did in this shot of DJ Craze at 1/3 second:
Take a look at the full set of Dani in Motion.