The above picture is a photo I took of friends embracing each other. The picture below belongs to Cristina Garcia Rodero and was taken from one of her portfolios on www.magnumphotos.com
Both of these pictures display specific human emotions. While it is not hard to capture somebody's emotions on camera, I think it is hard to portray it accurately. With the use of motion (and the lack of) I feel that these two pictures display the photographed emotions very well. Usually when someone is sad they mope around; an action that is very slow and meditated. When photographing a sad person with a fast shutter speed you remove blurriness from the photo. By doing so you truly pause the person at a moment in time and highlight their slow movements and portray their overall mood very accurately. In the same sense, when people are happy they generally tend to move around a lot and be very active. By photographing happy people with a slower shutter speed you are able to show their movements and in turn are able to more accurately portray their mood and actions. Together, these two photos show exactly how important motion is in photography, especially when capturing certain moods.
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