Capturing movement in photography

I wanted to try and capture movement in photography, i started by photographing my kitten, because she moves so fast i thought it would be a good way to try it out before moving outside.

I am still new to photography so i am trying to really see how to form a photograph, this image above, captures movement but there is too much going on in the back ground and it is low quality, this is a snap not a photograph. i decided to 'set up a scene' so to speak with what i had to hand.

I really like this image, i think because you can make out more of her face, but i think the second one really shows more movement. I used my Iphone to take these images and used the fast shutter speed to try and capture her moving.

I also decided to try and edit these i didn't do much just added a blue hue, Except for this one below.

I liked the pop of red in this image, but decided all the flowers red wouldn't look as good, so i decided to just edit all but one black and white. I then decided to try and capture more, i took photos of my hand with the fast shutter speed and then i over took a photo and overlaid it on top of itself over and over.

I quite like that this changes the mood to very dark with over laying, i wondered how it would look with just two images on top of each other multiple times.

I prefer this image to the top one, it is quite freaky and makes it look really deformed, which i like, i decided to try a lot of different images to see how that would turn out.

The first image has more layers,10, and the second one has 5 i really like the second image i think it really captures the movement in the hands. Quite a lot of fun! i find this very interesting and i am going to continue with it, i think it is a lot more interesting visually, to me, when something is in motion. I really like the images of my cat, i like the one with the flower in motion the best i think it just gives it an extra something, brings it to life a little bit. I think when continuing this i would move outside and try and capture some nature shots of perhaps cars in motion. A lot of ideas buzzing around in my head right now on what i can do, i think i am really starting to get more comfortable with a camera now and i am starting to really enjoy it. I started this course with my mind set on body painting and now i feel like my mind is starting to expand and i am having so much fun with all these different types of art i am trying out.

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