Frozen Movement

Camera Settings

ISO 100

Aperture f/9

Shutter Speed 1/60

Body: Nikon D5200

Lens: 18-55mm

To achieve a photo in which your subject looks frozen in a blurry background you have to adjust the camera settings. Having a low shutter speed such as 1/60 you allow the shutter to open for a significant amount of time thus creating a blur in movement, and this blur will happen to the background when you are tracking your subject. However by having a long shutter exposure a lot of light will be let in, and this is why we change the aperture to f/9 as this reduces the amount of light that is let into the lens.

To achieve frozen movement your subject must be moving, below are examples taken by are road and the subjects are vehicles.