Motion Studies

Melissa Strait being a sport and allowing me to capture her movement around a room.

Sarah getting into the Volleyball game at the St. Augustine Pier.

Karla saving the volley during the same game at the St. Augustine Pier.

Here are a few of my practice runs with freezing and blurring motion by using gimmicks on my Cannon SD790 point and shoot. I've found that the auto-correcting imagery are making things a little more difficult to take pictures, but there are some work-arounds I've managed to hammer out. For one, ISO seems to be the only way to capture motion on my camera currently and it suffers terribly in low light situations with excessive image noise.

Feature Photo

Victoria Barnett, curator of the National Holocaust Museum, takes in a difficult question from the student panel after her lecture.

Families come together to play volleyball at the pier at night. Chris laughed along with Marco and John as his attempt to save the volley was defeated by the net.

Chris volley's the ball with a move that looks more prayer than anything else.

This series of photographs was made as an attempt to field a feature photo. I tried to get a sense of action through the Volleyball series but ended up learning more about my camera's "action" setting and it's aversion to low-light situations. The Volleyball players were all good sports (no pun intended) in letting me take pictures of their game, but declined their last names. To give credit to those in attendance pictured and not pictured, their names were as follows: Marco, John, Sarah, Karla, Jacob, Sam and Chris.