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Nancy:
Luck has very little to do with it! This is where I choose to spend my money, I am lucky in that my enthusiasm for photography is as strong today as it was 40 years ago when I bought my fist camera :-)
Crow: Your camera does have the capability! Shutter speed is the important part of this equation and the sx30 can get down to 1/3200 I believe. the hard bit is to maintain a decent aperture (f8 is nearly always the ideal on any lens) while not gaining too much noise from ramping up the iso!
Russell; Bright sunlight is always good if you don't have flash as it makes it easier to gain a faster shutterspeed but flash is always going to be better because it has such a short duration and freezes the moment stroboscopically :-) (Gosh, is there such a word?)

While I have a lot of equipment hardly any of it is 'needed', rather it makes it a little easier. For example... 3 flashguns? if the ambient light allows then my camera can shoot at 1/8000th sec at say, f4. f4 is not good DoF at macro distances so you need to crank that up to at least f8 but in my case f16 to help with the DoF (and still no guarantee of sharpness mark you!). That though will bring the shutter speed down 4 stops to 1/500th (still reasonable for freezing the action). I normally shoot at 200 iso and rather than go up the scale to allow greater shutter speed I turn it down to 100 iso for greater quality and less noise so now we are at 1/250th sec which is the shutter sync speed. Now this is all if the ambient light is bright enough... I'm indoors in England where that hardly ever happens :-) hence the three strobes- my guns are all capable of adjusting the power output from full power all the way down to 1/128th (in increments). the less power you use the shorter the flash duration. If all three guns then are set to the same distance and same power setting then you have tripled the amount of light while maintaining the shortest duration of flash to freeze the moment :-)
Anyone NOT confused yet :-)