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Chapter 12: Taking Great Pictures
Microsoft Digital Image Standard User’s Manual
Another way to photograph a moving subject is to pan your camera with the
action. While a stop-action photo freezes everything in the photo, panning
your camera keeps your moving subject in focus, but blurs the background. For
this effect, you do not want to use the action mode, because you do not want a
fast shutter speed. To accomplish this effect, follow your moving subject in the
viewfinder (or LCD screen) as it moves, but pan the camera so that your subject
remains in the same position in the frame. Your result won’t show the subject in
as clear a focus as stop action, but the blurred background helps to pronounce
the speed and movement of your subject.
Since the camera panned with the subject, the girl is in fairly sharp
focus and the background is blurred. This helps convey movement.