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.
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