The shots im looking to do is having a car in motion, with the backround all blurred out somewhat(not totally blurred, more like the first pic I attached) and the rims are in a spinning motion but the car is crisp and clear? I am looking into buying a camera and I want to know what would be best camera for the money and what I need to know about taking these shots??

That effect is called Panning. The technique requires that the camera be moved (panned) so that the subject stays the same place in the frame so that the subject is sharp but the background has motion blur. Easy to explain, but not so easy to do.

Your camera will require some degree of manual control to fix the shutter speed. The slower the shutter, the more the background blurs.


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For all you want to know use panning AND"motion blur" as a search string in Google.

Panning is one way to do it, but it is pretty tough to have the shots come out clean. But then again, I haven't tried it too much.

The more common way that it is done, especially for magazine shoots and whatnot, is using a rig to fix the camera at a specific location on or around the car.

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If you what to take a picture like the top photo you posted...you need to have another car fallow you at the same speed and take the picture while you are both moving. The second photo was probably a camera Mounted to the car itself.

To do this properly you need a camera that will allow you to manually adjust the shutter speed. Most cameras will let you do this, but some won't. Providing you have a cool enough camera, the easiest way to pull off rolling shots is to drive side-by-side in a different car. You will want to make sure you're doign this during the day, rolling shots at night are a lot more difficult.

Make sure both cars are going roughly the same speed, and then multiply the speed of the car by two to determine your camera's shutter speed. So if the cars are going 50mph, then set the shutter speed to 1/100th of a second. If you're going 20mph, then make it 1/40th of a second--you get the idea. I used this technique recently on a photoshoot, and I got pretty good results.

Another trick for the 2nd picture you posted:

Get a suction cup mount for your camera and stick it to a body panel. Set the shutter for a longer exposure (depends on how much you want blurred) but anything slower than 1 second should work. I'd probably go even slower to maybe a 3 or 5 second speed. Then just push the car! The longer your camera's shutter is open, the further/slower you can push the car. If you have it open a shorter time length, you'll have to push faster to get the wheel to go a full revolution. It's just that easy

Some more modern Digital cameras (I'm speaking of low end) have scene settings that might help, but manual settings is where it's at. Search Google for digital picture taking techniques.