Back in my high school photo class, I had shot some pictures of the playground in the park in town, and I liked the way they came out so I decided to revisit the swings to get some great motion shots. I was expecting the same ol' rusty chained swings from my youth, but the town must have gotten a bunch of money at some point to replace the worn out children's playthings with bright new plastic-y unphotogenic playground stuffs.
I would have sought out a different playground if I had the extra time, but I was working with what I had. It was also late afternoon and the sun was on it's way down, so I shot at a higher ISO. Please forgive any graininess that shows up.
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| 1/250, f4.5 |
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| 1/125, f6.3 |
Not much difference between the top two, unless you look more closely at the swing chain, as well as the chain coming off the back of the seat.
The progression of the next ones are much more obvious.
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| 1/60, f9.1 |
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| 1/30, f12.9 |
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| 1/15, f16 |
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| 1/8, f22.6 |
It is harder than I realized at first to photograph motion on a swing, because for that very short split second between going forwards and then fall backwards, you actually hang in the air still. Because of this, even some of the slower shutter speeds were able to get relatively unblurry shots. I used a mono-pod when shooting to help reduce camera shake. The parents of all the little kids running around must have thought my fiancé and I were awfully weird. Kids kept running up to us to watch what we were doing. Some of the little ones probably think cameras are only a function of a cell phone and I'd bet they had never seen an SLR before.
I hate how over-saturated the photos look, but the plastic was really that vibrant. So I played around in photoshop, and:
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