Setting Your Camera For Action Shots

Video Transcript

"Action in camera settings are very important. Because, when you're photographing action, if you don't have the right camera settings, no one is going to be able to tell what you were photographing. More often than not, when you're photographing action, there's a lot of motion and you need a fast shutter speed in order to capture this movement without it being totally blurred. Sometimes a little bit slower of a shutter speed than you need, will create a neat effect in that there will be some motion blur with your image. And sometimes, there's a trick you can do, where if you're photographing action, say a person is running pass me here, if I actually pan with them when I'm taking the photograph, it'll help create a sharper image than if you just took it while they were running by. Action in camera settings are really important because the action can really tell the people what the photograph is all about. Here in this photograph of the largest flower in the world, I captured the man actually getting ready to take a measurement of this flower. And I did so, because the flower by itself, without any perspective, you have no idea how big it is. But by capturing the action of him measuring this flower, it really shows a lot more in the photograph. So, it's important when you're taking action shots to understand your camera settings so that you get a crisp image, so that you can get the proper exposure. But it's also important to understand how the action relates to what your image is trying to depict."