to my eye, it didn't look nearly that orange

i was getting ready to for bed last night when i noticed the shadows that the trees out back made against the side of one of the houses--the whole scene was really beautiful, a rich, buttery shade of yellow. cooler still, i thought, was the silhouette of the swing sitting in front of the house to the right. so i end up getting the tripod out, messed around trying to set it up knowing that there was no way that i could hold the camera still for the 15 second shutter speed setting i had to use. i think i took 8-9 shots in all--some portrait, some landscape. i would have been fine with the shots i took "as is" (save for the fact the photos were much, much more orange and halloween-y than i expected they would be) if it hadn't been for the fact that while i was taking, i don't know, the third photo someone suddenly ran around the side of the house. i wasn't sure what the camera caught, if anything, but i remember waiting (what seemed to me like forever) to see the finished pic on the screen. and then nothing. no trace of the person running past the side of the house. perhaps because i've not had many opportunities thus far to try and capture movement (save for perhaps the wind's impact on plants), i haven't a very good understanding of what i might have needed to do differently to have captured the figure. and because most of the photos I've taken thus far are of people or things that i can photograph again (and again and yet again) if i happen to mess up the first time around, this was the first time when i was really disappointed about a missed (or in this case, i think, botched) photo opportunity.