Journal 3:Making The Invisible Visible-Shutter Speeds

 

This week during class we were experimenting with shutter speeds, which was a lot of fun. We particularly looked at 4 styles and techniques, which you will see examples of below.

 

 

 

     The first style I experimented with is called light painting. In order to capture this picture I had to adjust my shutter speed to a rather slow speed which was about 15 seconds long. I also had my ISO set to 100. The heart you see is actually four tiny colourful lights which my friend Lauren moved in the shape of a heart. Due to the fact that my shutter was open for 15 seconds, I was able to capture the movement of the lights for 15 seconds.

 

 

 

 

     The second style I played with was using a strobe light. For this kind of picture I had to set my shutter time to about 5 seconds, I also changed my ISO to about 800. When I was taking pictures using the strobe light, I found that a lot of my pictures came out too blurry, and I think this was because the person in front of the light was moving too fast. 

 

 

     This next style is called panning, which I thought was possibly the hardest of the 4 techniques I experimented with this week. I set my shutter speed to about 1/40 and changed my ISO to 800. The thing I felt was hard about this style is trying to get the person completely clear, as I found most of my pictures were coming out all blurry, instead of just the background. This was most likely occurring because I wasn't keeping the camera steady enough while I was taking the photos.

 



     The last technique I experimented with this week was action shots. With this type of shot, I had to set my shutter speed to a high shutter speed. In this case I set it to about 1/1000. I also had to use my flash because I found that my pictures came out too dark when I didn't use the flash. I changed my ISO setting to about 1000.

Journal 2: Pinhole Photography

 

     For this second journal, we worked in pairs, taking pictures with the pinhole cameras that we made. The first photo my partner Lauren and I took was of the street leading to our school. When we took this picture it was cloudy outside, so we used an exposure time of about 60 seconds. I think that our exposure time was alright because the image turned out ok however the left side of the image is a little dark meaning that it was slightly underexposed. The left side doesn't have as much detail as the right side of the image does either. One way to fix this would be to leave the shutter open longer which would allow more detail to be seen in the left side of the picture, however if we had left the shutter open longer, we might have overexposed the right side of the image. This photo is also a little blurry, which means that the camera most likely moved while we were taking the picture. In order to fix this we would just have to tape the pinhole camera to the ground better so that it doesn't move while the picture is being taken.

    
     The second photo we took with our pinhole camera was supposed to be of the street behind our school, however as you can see it did not turn out. It was sunny outside so we decided to use an exposure time of 40 seconds. This photo turned out this way because of two possible reasons, either it was underexposed so we should have left the shutter open longer, or there was something blocking the hole which stopped the light from entering the camera. If we were to try and take this picture again with the same weather conditions I think we would leave the shutter open a little longer in order to allow enough light into the camera to produce an image. We would also check to make sure that nothing is blocking the entrance to the camera.

Journal 1: Show me your Culture

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



 

 

 

Getting To Know Your Style

Photographer: Craig Wolf

Style: Landscape Photography

Hunting Island- South Carolina

Grand Tetons, WY

McWay Falls

Out of the three pictures posted above I particularly like the McWay Falls photo. The almost Ariel perspective the photographer was able to portray was what first caught my attention as I thought it was an effective way to capture this particular landscape . By taking the photograph from this perspective it allowed the photographer to create depth and layers within the photo by having the trees on the cliff in the foreground and the water in the background. I think this is an effective photograph because of the "C" composition that the coastline has created as it leads the eye around the whole picture. The fact that you can see the movement in the water also makes this an effective picture in my opinion because it helps to lead the eye around the whole photo as well. Another reason why I feel this photo is effective is because of the contrast between the blue tones of the water and the brown and green tones of the land, as well as the crisp colours that the camera was able to capture. Finally, there are a lot of different elements  included in this photo from the crashing of the waves on the coastline to the rocky cliffs which I feel adds interest and makes this picture effective.



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