Freeze or Blur Motion
Here's something your camera does that your eyes can't: depending on how long it looks at a scene, a moving thing can come out frozen sharp — caught mid-stride — or smeared into a soft streak of motion. Both are "correct." They just tell the story differently.
You don't need any numbers to see this yet. Use your camera's Sports or Action mode (often a little running figure) for the frozen version. For the blurred one, do the opposite: shoot the same movement somewhere dimmer, or in a Night mode, which makes the camera linger and lets the motion smear.
Take both, and notice how freezing feels crisp and factual while blur feels alive and full of energy. This is the whole idea behind the Shutter Speed tree — where you'll take real control of how long the camera looks, and bend motion on purpose.
No numbers needed. Freeze it: Sports or Action mode (the running-figure icon). Blur it: shoot the same motion somewhere dimmer, or switch to Night mode so the camera holds the shutter open longer. Steady hands for both.
You've nailed the exercise once you've made the same motion look two ways — crisp and frozen, then streaked with blur — and felt how different they read. Place both — the frozen frame and the blurred one — side by side. (If they came out the same, push it: brighter light plus Sports mode to freeze harder, dimmer light or Night mode to blur more.)
The assignment
Find something in gentle motion — a friend walking past, a swing, traffic on the street — and capture it both ways, frozen sharp and blurred.
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