Composites: A different way to capture movement

Alexander Mustard · Issue 32, Sep/Oct 2006 · pp. 35–38

Products mentioned: Nikon D2X, Nikon D100, 10.5mm Fisheye lens, 105mm macro lens, Subal Housing

Movement is an evocative and challenging subject for photographers. Our medium is the still image, yet the world we record is constantly on the move and as a result we have developed a wide range of techniques to capture and communicate movement. Sometimes we express movement in our images by freezing a clearly fast moving subject, capturing the moment in razor sharp stillness. Composition is also important here, for example giving a subject space into which to move in the frame lends balanced dynamism to the image. On other occasions we communicate movement by allowing the subject to blur across our frame (something I wrote about doing with sharks in UWP 30). In this short article I want to talk about Composites A different way to capture movement by Alexander Mustard This composite is composed of three frames. I actually shot 10 frames of the diver rolling into the water (within second…