From the course: Photo Essay: An Artist at Work

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Capturing a shot in motion to add interest

Capturing a shot in motion to add interest

From the course: Photo Essay: An Artist at Work

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Capturing a shot in motion to add interest

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Photography is about capturing the moment, and sometimes those moments are really loud and energetic. And other times, they're really quiet. right now, my photo essay is feeling a little bit quiet, so we've got this incredible artist who's spending lots of quiet moments alone in his studio, working on angelic sculptures. but I want to amp it up a little bit. So I just took some photographs of Kevin on his bicycle with his surfboard. And I decided to really add some motion to that by getting in the back of a truck and traveling along with him and shooting with him making the background more blurry. See if this works. So the key for us is to stay at the same speed and we'll try to be consistent and you too. (SOUND) And we'll just go all the way to the end. So it's whenever you're ready to go. >> Ready to go. (SOUND). >> To do something like this, you gotta actually orchestrate it, though. because I've gotta get Kevin at a place (SOUND) at a certain time. So you gotta schedule it. And…

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