Working outside in the day, freeze the motion of athletes and bike riders, dancers, jumping dogs. Try at least two different types of subjects ie soccer players and bikers, kids on swings and dancers. Capture the decisive moment. The soccer player when their leg is fully stretched out in a kick, a bike rider doing a wheelie. Don’t be shy. Fill your frame with the action.
Use a shutter speed 1/500 sec or faster.
If using a cameraphone outside in bright light, it will automatically use a fast shutter speed. If you are working with less light, use lightroom or other app that lets you set the shutter speed.
Post shots of at least two different activities to an album on Flickr for a total of 40 shots. Please don’t include all of the times you missed: shots out of focus, the back of receding bike riders, etc. Just your best work. Send your best two to the class group.
Using the shooting mode Tv, set the shutter speed to 1/500 or higher. Capture a range of subjects in motion creating a minimum of 15 photos that freeze the motion.
Blurring motion: use a tripod. Start with a shutter speed of 1 “. If your photos are too bright look for a darker place to shoot. Combine something moving and something that is still and sharp in every frame. Create a minimum of 10 photos that contrast blurred motion with a sharp environment.
Put the final 25 photos in an album on Flickr. Send your single best blurred motion and your single best frozen motion to the class group.
Top row: Thomas Holton, Michael Kenna, Jill Stein, Bottom: Janette Beckman
Shutter Speed
Shutter Speed is the length of time that the sensor is exposed to light to create the photograph. It is measured in seconds or fractions of a second.
The full stops for shutter speed are: 30”, 15”, 8”, 4”, 2”, 1”, . sec, ., 1/8, 1/15, 1/30, 1/60, 1/125, 1/250, 1/500, 1/1000, 1/2000, 1/4000, 1/8000
Doubling the time, doubles the amount of light that reaches the sensor.
When shooting with a cameraphone and the Lightroom Photoshop app, you can set the shutter speed of your cameraphone between 1/10,000 and 1/4 sec.
A good rule of thumb when shooting with a camera is: Any shutter speeds slower then 1/60 require the use of a tripod. When shooting with a cameraphone, you will need a tripod to shoot at 1/15 or slower.
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Capturing Motion
Your choice of shutter speed will change the way motion is captured in the photograph.
Frozen Motion-Motion is stopped and captured in the frame with a fast shutter speed.
Use a slower shutter speed – 1/4 sec to 30″ or even longer
Direction-if the subject moves parallel to the picture plane there is more visible movement than if the subject moves toward or away from the camera.
Focal length-a subject will appear blurrier when photographed with a telephoto lens than when photographed with a wide-angle lens.
Timing
The exact moment that you take the picture is as important as how long the shutter speed is. This is often called:
The Decisive Moment: A term coined by Cartier Bresson- “the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as the precise organization of forms which gives that event its proper expression.”
Imagine that you have a hula hoop. Put it on the ground (during the day in a place with good light) and do not step out of it. You could also think that you are in one of those social distancing circles that have been drawn in some parks. Take 10 photos without leaving the circle. Use every strategy that we have discussed in class: angle of view, close ups and long shots, negative space, filling the frame, diagonal lines, leading lines, to make the most interesting and varied photos possible from that one place.
Find two more spots and repeat for a total of 30 photos.
2 pts. Work with a shoe. Take a series of photos of that shoe from different angles and with different cropping until you get 20 photos of it that really look different. The goal is to take as wide a range of photos of the shoe as possible. The way to get this wide range is by using different ways to compose and light the shoe. The shoe should be the main element in every photo.
Shot list:
Framing
Long shot
Medium shot
Close-up
Extreme Close-up
Angle of view
Worm’s-eye view
Low-angle
Eye-level
High angle
Aerial or Bird’s-eye view
Oblique angle
Focal Length
Wide Angle – zoom out
Telephoto – Zoom in
Line
Horizontal Line
Vertical line
Diagonal line
Balance
Rule of Thirds
Balanced/Symmetrical
Off-balance/Asymmetrical
Space and Perspective
Shallow Space
Deep Space
Put your 20 best photos of the shoe in an album on Flickr.
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