When I first got my new camera, in preparation for our first trip to South Africa, I tried to learn how to take a panned shot. I had immodest ambitions of catching a classic shot of a cheetah chasing its prey, with the landscape blurred behind it. By the time I got there, I hoped simply to catch a non-blurry photo of a leaping impala. I soon realised how impossible that might be for me, a rank amateur, as impalas tended to leap past us just when I had turned my camera off. This is the closest shot to leaping impala we have. I didn’t even take it, my husband did. Three and a half years later. Sigh.
This though is my favourite action shot, blurry as it is. It wasn’t even in the wild, but at the Kirstenbosch National Botanical Gardens in Cape Town. That little guinea fowl was really moving!
I love the guinea fowl. Of course.
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I’ve tried using continuous shot mode (on my point & shoot) to take photos of busy toddlers, at weddings (people walking up & down the aisle, etc.), with varying degrees of success. Usually there is some degree of blur.
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Those are both terrific! Super beautiful shots. Such a treat to get great action shots.
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