Action Shots

The beauty of action is it can be captured in many ways

Russ Burden

Updated July 27, 2016

It can be graceful and show lots of fluidity when slow shutter speeds are used or it can arrest the motion when fast ones are utilized.

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Originally Published October 29, 2012

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