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.”
The photo I chose is Carnegie Hall and CitySpire Center, New York, New York by Michael Kenna.This is a photo of a skyscraper located in midtown manhattan.The first thing I noticed about this photo is how the shades of color go from dark to light, a negative and positive space.This photo gives me a calm and dark feeling.A photo you can just stare at and analyze every detail captured.I think the intention of the photographer was to show how high the skyscraper is compared to other buildings around the city.Another thing that I noticed is the reflection of the skyscraper on the bottom, it looks like there is water causing the reflection in the photo.The colors of the photo also fits the aesthetic of New York so well at night time when you can see all the lights from the buildings shining.
Three elements that are the most important in this photo are figure to ground, symmetry, and patterns and repetition.Figure to ground helps create a mood of the photograph because the light background brings more attention to the dark shade of the skyscraper.It also gives the look of the sky in the background since skyscrapers are so tall it seems like you can see the sky.Michael Kenna also uses symmetry in the photograph that creates a reflection feeling.If you flip the photo horizontally or upside down it is balanced.Patterns and repetition is shown in the photo with the little dark and light windows across the building.
Stein captures a scene on the L train to Brooklyn after a school day in this picture. The photograph has many aspects, such as the hands holding onto the pole and the vague faces in the background. However, the image focuses on the mom holding up her child while she leans her head on her chest. The mom looks tired, with low eyes and a blank expression. However, she holds her child up while she rests. Stein’s intention with this vision was to depict New York City life, especially for mothers and families who take public transportation. The way everyone stands so close to each other shows how packed the train is; on top, you can tell it is winter based on how they’re dressed. The image looks gloomy, and the lighting makes everything look gray and almost dirty. As someone who takes the train in winter and as the image’s viewer, it hits close to home. After a long day, the last thing you want to do is walk through the cold streets of NY to wait for the train, then have to stand up the whole time, too. Unfortunately, that’s the reality of living in the city. Stein wanted the photograph’s viewers to see the tiredness on everyone’s face and feel the image was exhausting. A mom who had a long day and a child who had a long day standing on the train together.
The main element I see in this photo is the rule of thirds. The photo’s subject is not placed in the center of the image but more on the left side. If there were a grid over it, the mom and her child would fall onto one of the intersections, which perfectly shows the rule of thirds. Along with that element, there is a sense of patterns with the hands gripping the standing pole. The arms are closer to the camera, and the hands are stacked on top of one another, giving you a sense of a pattern. It is ideally different but similar enough to where it grabs your attention. The last element that brought the image together is leading lines, simply because of the pole again. Its placed right in the center of the photo. The right side just has random arms coming in while the left has faces and emotions which lead you to the subject.
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