This photograph was taken while Alicia was walking towards the camera. It made her look like a ghost walking through the hallway and you can even see the people behind her through her. The shutter speed for this image was 1″. Motion Blur is taking an image of a subject that is moving at very slow shutter speed so that the moving subject looks blurry and sometimes barely visible.
Motion blur is capturing the rapid movement of a subject with a camera with a specific shutter speed that allows you to capture the object with some visual streaking that gives a clue towards the movement.
I picked this photo as my personal best because I found a bit of humor in the position we stood in and the emphasis on Calvin holding the bottle and the space in the hallway that framed the picture. I also felt that lighting was super nice in this picture as well so you can clearly see everyone in the picture. The shutter speed we used to take this picture was 0.5″
This photo was taken in the entryway of the building as students were swiping their IDs to get in. It was tricky to get a good shot because the amount of waiting involved just to catch the right moment. It reminded me of the Steve McCurry shot of the boy because he said that he waited many hours to get the perfect shot. I like the way the entry gates frame the shot and create diagonal lines. The effect of the motion blur creates the feeling of business and movement. It also creates the effect of transparency, which is interesting because it makes the people appear ghostly and distant.
Motion blur is what happens when the shutter speed on the camera is very slow, so that movement appears blurred as the camera captures it. It also creates a contrast in the image because objects that are not moving appear still and in focus. To get this photograph I used a shutter speed of 1 second.
I like this photo because I managed to draw a star using a light source with a shutter speed of 4″ at F11 and using ISO 100. We set the shutter speed so slow because I needed enough time to draw the star perfectly with my face in the center of it. There is also some symmetry because the star is a symmetrical shape and me being in the center helps with that. This photo wasn’t really aiming for much opacity but it can be seen that my arm’s motion was captured so there is some opacity and motion blur in my arm. Also, there’s motion blur to my whole body because it wasn’t possible for me to stay still and draw the star at the same time.
From the photo that I posted here, this is my favorite out of the top 5. In this photo, the shutter speed is 1/50 (3 seconds). The photo is a regular pose by the staircase but instead of the regular point and shoot, the tripod is used to add effects of slow motion and effects. In this image, the lights are shown by using the flashlight after it reached its 3 seconds then a pause before the actual photo is up. Motion of the photo is the movement while the blur is the object or subject moving by the slow shutter speed.
Shutter Speed is how long the camera lens is open to allow light in to take a photo. We use the shutter speed of 10 seconds to take this photo. By allowing the camera lens to be open for 10 seconds this photo has an motion blur effect. Motion blur is when the subject is moving in the frame while the camera is taking the photo. In this photo Marcus is standing in the middle of the frame and moving both of his hands up and down like a bird would flap its wings. By doing this the camera was able to capture that motive creating an effect of many hands.
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.
The exhibit is a collection of photographs taken in India. The exhibit has photographs that are very rich in color and pop out at you from a far. In the other hand, they’re some photographs that are more subtle and don’t have bright colors. The exhibit is organized around a room and in the middle has a spiral stairway and although the exhibition it’s it does not seem like it because the way the exhibition is set up around the room. The photographs range from people sort of doing their everyday duties to the simplicity of someone just sitting down eating lunch. Mr. McCurry’s photographs all capture specific actions that capture the best of that one moment.
In the photographs we see moments captured of people and even animals that tell a different story every time you look at it. There was one picture where the guy was neck deep in water and had lost everything but his sewing machine which he manage to salvage. You would think that someone who had lost it all in a flood would have been upset and sad but in the photograph he was smiling and the best part is that it looked genuine. This is the kind of work that Mr. McCurry did in this Exhibit, he captured the best part of the moment. I think his approach to photographing India was to capture everyday life style and activities in a way where it looks mesmerizing and beautiful rather than simple and boring.
This photograph was one of my favorites because when I first saw the photograph I thought it was a shadow of a dog but after looking closer I realized it was an actual dog. I really like the contrast between the black dog, the white doors and windows, and the red walls it really makes the photograph pop out and capture your attention. The natural lighting also helps the top of the image look brighter and the bottom darker. I chose this picture simply because I looked at the image and I could see the hope in the dog, although everything around him is underwater he still holding on to that little piece of cement he is standing on. You can see that the the hope of that door opening so he can escape the world around him that is falling apart.
Steve McCurry’s Rubin Museum
Based on my class trip to the Rubin Museum in my thoughts and feelings I enjoyed it. The Rubin Museum is a quiet exhibit where there is no hardly crowds and there is a lot of space where the person can breathe. Is physical space are wide rooms where the person can have freedom to walk around and get the sense of the museum’s environment and its paintings. As we went to the fifth floor to go check out the Steve McCurry paintings I felt very inspired. There were a total of 25 Steve McCurry paintings on the floor and each painting had a significant of feelings and emotions. The kind of photos that were taken there were photos from India mostly in the Maharashtra Bombay and the Ultar Pradesh and the time of year that these photos were taken was in between early 1980’s to late 2000’s.
Based on Steve McCurry’s exhibit of India, the photo’s that McCurry mostly took was close-ups and medium shots of indian people in a moment event. For example he took a picture of a crowded people carrying a happy man during the Holi Festival of Rajasthan India in the year 1996. This photo represents the celebration of the Hindu Holi Festival which the indians are celebrating the beginning of spring. McCurry’s approach to this photograph was to focus on capturing certain moments of events that are happening in the world and his purpose was to present these photographs to the viewer to make them feel connected to the photo and to feel the experience of the special event that happened in history.
http://stevemccurry.com/galleries/universal-language
During my time at the Rubin Museum, the one photograph that I like the most is the photograph of a Tailor Carries His Sewing Machine through Monsoon Waters. Photo was taken in Portbandar Guijarat India in 1983. The reason why I chose this photo as the best from the other photo’s because to me it tells a story. It explains how the Indian man had to carried the sewing machine on his shoulder to walk to other places to sell and make money as a tailor. But unfortunately the sewing machine broke and tailor felt upset. But when the manufacturer gave him a new one, he felt really happy. So at that moment that the man was happy, Steve McCurry took the photo of that man walking through the water. The best part about Steve McCurry, is that he actually stands in deep water where most of his body was wet to take this man’s photo. Also this photo is very connecting because based on the expression of the Indian Man’s face, is shows happiness and makes me feel happy and joy.
Based on McCurry’s most famous photo “The Afghan Girl” this photo became so iconic because it tells a story. You can see from the expression of her face what she been through, being a refugee women living in Pakistan during the time of the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. Also how McCurry photograph her at time of her refugee. Another important fact is that how many people liked this photo that it became “The First World Third World Mona Lisa. What makes this a great photo is how the women is looking towards the camera and the viewers, also the use of broad lighting giving a high contrast to the whole image. Another thing is that the person is in center of the photo and the use of colors that the women is wearing describing who she is. What I learn about the story of this image is as I mention how she was a refugee surviving the soviet occupation and how intense it was for her that she had to lived through this. Overall my biggest take away from the exhibit is the photo’s that Steve McCurry took, the clarity and use of colors that are being presented. It gives me a good relaxing feeling when observing these photo’s. It’s amazing how pictures can tell a story, understanding its purpose and the reason why the photographer took it. I definitely want to go back to the museum again it was fun.
Christy Paz 4/1/16 City Tech Photography 1
The Steve McCurry’s Exhibition is in the Rubin Museum. The physical space has low ceilings and all of the walls were painted in dark blue. The text on top of the wall giving descriptions to the picture were in white. The room was dark, except for the lights that were shining on the the pictures on the walls and some light coming from the exhibitions on the floors above and below us through the spiraling staircase in the center of the room. The Pictures that Steve McCurry took were not directly flat on the wall, but was elevated out of the wall with probably a board under it to help support it. The pictures were also not framed. All of the photos were related to india in some way and were taken in india. It varied from having portraits of people from india to the seater conditions that were in india like the monsoon or the dust storms. It also had pictures of indian cities and houses that people interacted with.
The kind of places that were in Steve McCurry’s india exhibition were more rural places in india. Most photos were in towns or very natural places in india. A lot of the people that were photographed were skinny. The homes that were photographed looked nothing like suburban america and instead had many small houses close to each other. The people in these places also don’t look like they rely heavily on electronics and technology like in america. What I found interesting is how the photos portray what the people value instead like in the picture of the students in the university learning how to make cloth or the picture of the man up to his neck in water trying to save his old fashioned sewing machine. We do not see how the people with a lot of wealth live their day and instead we see how average everyday people in india live.
One photograph I love in the exhibit is the photograph of the running child that was taken in Johdpur, India, http://stevemccurry.com/galleries/india. I love this picture because I live how the leading lines focus on him, I like the fact the diagonal lines go with his motion and I like the fact that the child photo was actually taken in motion. I feel like the things mentioned previously makes the photo feel more alive and breathtaking. I also like the contrast that the child is wearing fancy clothing but is running around around bear footed.
I think that Steve McCurry’s photo of the Afghan girl is so iconic because I think that Steve McCurry was able to show people beauty in a place where a lot of people don’t think beauty is. I also think that this photo became so icon because it showed the beauty of an average person in Afghanistan rather then this being a model or a person in high class standing. The biggest take away I had from this exhibition as a whole is that beauty and uniqueness can come from anywhere, not from a select few and that you should be appreciative for the things you have because there are plenty of people that struggle everyday.
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