Taking pictures of poi

Want to be taking good pictures of your spinning routine?

Like THIS?

Then you're in the right place.

How many times have you tried photographing a quickly moving (or in this case, spinning) object? How did that work out for you?

 If you were lucky, you got something like this

If you weren't, more than likely something like this. Now you may find yourself asking, "What is the PROPER way to photograph poi, Adam?!"

Well, I'm here to tell you. If you want pictures like THIS, then read on.

The first step is to make sure you have a tripod, without one, you'll get unnecessarily blurry pictures, sure, they'll still look COOL, but not as pretty

Picture taken without a tripod.

Now, the second step is find a way to adjust your shutter speed. Shutter speed is how long the camera allows light into the lens for. I reccomend about a 2.5" shutter speed. 

And before you know it, you'll be taking pictures like this!

Happy spinning!