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 (time value), set the shutter speed to 1/500 or faster. Set the autofocus to AI Servo. Capture a range of subjects in motion creating a minimum of 15 photos that freeze the motion.
Blurring motion: use a tripod. Also, using the shooting mode Tv, start with a shutter speed of 1 “. use the AF mode: One shot. 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.
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 photograph I chose was taken by Thomas Holton, called The Lams of Ludlow Street II. This one in particular stood out to me because of the contrast and how even though it’s one picture, it tells two stories.
In this piece, there is a girl and a boy. Looks like they are both siblings. The right half of the picture is the younger sister lying in bed and staring at the camera. Meanwhile, the brother, who is clearly older, is studying at his desk. The contrast between the light and dark background kind of forces us to differentiate the siblings by showing a glimpse into their daily lives. There is a clear sign of diagonals from the bed to the curtains. There are also patterns and repetition on the bed and curtains as well. The sister looks a bit sad, could be because she wants to play with the brother but the brother is busy. There is a sense of strong emotions involved. The photo depicts great defeat and seriousness.
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.
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