Work Diary - Movement

Evaluation

I found Thursday's session a mixture of positives and negatives when taking photos demonstrating movement. Movement is a difficult subject to capture and especially a challenging one to accomplish accurately. I found it  to be quite a tough requirement to take a photo of movement whilst making it look  like a decent piece of photography. It was fun and enjoyable making the characters in my photos jump and create movement with their bodies, however this was the only plus side I found during this session. In my opinion the photographs I took that illustrated movement were pretty average and also far off the quality that I have stumbled across on the internet. I wouldn't enjoy taking movement photographs again unless I continuously practised this troublesome art.

This photograph of George is an effective way to portray movement because my spin on the camera is evident through his body as there are two of them. It's clear that this camera has not taken a still photo because the subject is not clear or defined. There are large strokes of blurs all around this image so movement has effectively been displayed. The white background allows the main subject (George) to stand out as he is the subject of the picture that demonstrates movement from his different body positions.

This picture however is not as effective as the previous one because it's just a blur. The defined body is not clear and it's hard to judge what's actually been taken. On the other hand, it can be seen as a photograph illustrating movement effectively because there are two pairs of legs and feet in the background which are still, unlike George on the chair who's in media res. His head being invisible perhaps could indicate just how fast he is travelling on the chair, which would be another sign of movement.

Progression

Even though capturing movement isn't my specialty and one of the formal elements that I discovered to be the least enjoyable and interesting to photograph, there are still images that I identified on the internet to be quite inspirational. If I was set a task to go out and reshoot movement, there are a few things that I would do differently. Firstly, I would gather a handful of people and have them jumping off of something, not too high, performing different actions when in the air. This would allow my photographs to have a variety of blurred positions creating more depth and interest. The jumping bodies may not even have to be blurred, as I like the idea of frozen movement. Some photographs demonstrating frozen movement have been listed below. Secondly, if I were to take photos of movement by panning the camera with a lot of speed I would make sure that the area I'm photographing was extremely colourful to give a photograph the fun factor. Pictures of this have also been included below.