With my recent purchases of a new camera and lenses and misc. shooting equipment I've been actively reading The Digital Photography Book Vol. 1 and reading articles on Digital Photography School.  Yesterday, while walking, Kosmo I noticed a great opportunity to try a technique that I recently read from both sources.  So, once I got back to the house I grabbed the camera and decided to try to capture the motion of Kosmo running.

The key to this technique is to shoot in shutter priority mode and use a shutter speed that's slightly slower than normal and to pan your camera with your subject.  If you're lucky and pan with your subject well enough, you'll get your subject in focus and the background will be blurred.  Shooting in burst mode will help increase your chances of getting a good shot with your subject in focus.  I was using a shutter speed of 1/60 to 1/100 with decent results for these tests.

If I would have had some more daylight and could have spent some more time, I probably could have gotten some much better shots.  Overall though I'm pretty satisfied with how they turned out.  I've created a Kosmo Motion Blur page to host more of the shots from this test.

Before I end this post, I'll include one of the photos that didn't turn out too well, but that Lynn and I get a big kick out of because of the look on Kosmo's face.

Stay tuned for another post coming soon where I show a completely opposite technique that I've been experimenting with where I use a fast shutter speed to 'stop' motion.