Implying Motion in Photographs
Posted in Technique on August 24th, 2007 by MarkWhen you want to “freeze” motion, it’s intuitively obvious that you would use a very short shutter speed so that a moving subject will rendered sharply in your image. Generally speaking this is desirable, since it allows you to capture that fleeting peak instant of action, assuming your reflexes and sense of timing are up to it! Sports and wildlife shooters are expected to do this all the time.
But what if you wanted to capture a feeling of motion in your still image? How would you accomplish this?