LL 5 – Shutter speed

Today’s assignment was focused around Motion Blur. Motion blur is the movement caused by either the photographer, the subject or both simultaneously. When the shutter speed is too slow to capture any movement clearly, there is a hazy ghost-like effect that appears in the photo. I’ve selected this as the most successful and best shot from my group today because motion blur can be seen perfectly and the image also relates back to Leonardo Da Vinci’s Vitruvian man. My group used a slow shutter speed I believe around 10″. We’ve noticed that moving too fast would make the subject seem hardly noticeable and moving too slow didn’t really show that much motion blur. So instead, there was a pause between every step so that the camera can pick up what is there. Overall, I’ve enjoyed this assignment and learned not only that shutter speed controls light and appearance of subject but movement as well.