Camera Use Week 2 Shutter Exercises

In Class Shutter Exercises:

Francesca Woodman photograph showing motion blur:

The subject is moving up and down while facing the wall and is photographed just to the left of the centre of the frame. The subject is also placed quite close to the background in the photo.

From my in class research, I have concluded that Francesca Woodman used a medium to slow shutter speed for her above photograph and many of her other works.

In Class Exercise:

All of my photographs on this page were taken with the below settings:

Camera Setting: Shutter Priority: (TV)
Quality Setting: RAW and JPEG

Colour Balance: Adobe RGB
ISO: 100 - as we were shooting in bright day light
White Balance: Auto
Focus: Automatic

In the photos below, I have used the same lens consistently throughout the shoot. This was an experiment of shutter speeds, therefore I changed the shutter speed to see what the photographic outcome would be when considering movements and precise timing. I always made sure to have Richele (my subject) as the focus of the photograph.

Fast Shutter Speed - I 'froze' Richele jumping in the air using a shutter speed of 1/200. I tried to centre her as much as possible in the photograph. As you can tell, there is no blur in her movement, therefore it is clear that my shutter speed is set accordingly.
shutter speed - 1/200
ISO - 100
Aperture - f/3.5

Medium Shutter Speed - Here, Richele is modelling for me again; this time she is spinning around in circles to create a motion blur that I have captured in the photograph. Because of this motion blur, it is apparent that I have used a slower shutter speed than the above photograph.
shutter speed - 1/10
ISO - 100
Aperture - f/22.0

Slow Shutter Speed - This photograph was captured with the shutter speed at 0.5 of a second. The motion blur is greater in this photograph and also, her figure is fading the lower the shutter speed becomes. Movement in images will not be clear if the shutter speed is at a low speed. In order to 'freeze' the movement, the shutter speed must be higher - like in my first photograph of this set.
shutter speed - 0.5
ISO - 100
Aperture - 22.0

Richard Avedon:
Another photographer that our class looked in to was Richard Avedon. His work captures the subject very clearly and therefore it is clear he uses a fast shutter speed when photographing his subjects.The particular work we analysed was his diptych of Francis Bacon. This photograph is below:

As part of the in-class exercises I took more photographs, but this time around, I took more close-up shots, using Richele as my subject again. I adjusted the shutter speed to a higher setting so that I could capture Richele as clearly as possible, like Richard Avedon captures a lot of his subjects in his photographs. My photographs are below:

Shutter Speed for photographs: 1/200

ISO - 100

Aperture - 5.0

After I imported these into Adobe Bridge, I used Adobe Photoshop to remake my own version of Richard Avedon's diptych of Francis Bacon except using a different subject. I adjusted the lighting and colour saturation to add my own touch to the diptych.

Self Directed Tasks:

1. The following photos are focused on the background rather than the subject, as instructed. I used a tripod to help me steady the shots with a low Shutter Speed. All photos had the same ISO (100).

Shutter Speed: 1/100th

Shutter Speed: 1/60th

Shutter Speed: 1/10th

Shutter Speed: 1.3"

 2. The following photographs are of the same subject but moving. I tried to focus on the background, but because the subject was moving - I found it became increasingly difficult. I also used a tripod. All photos had the same ISO (100).

Shutter Speed: 1/250th

Shutter Speed: 1/100th

Shutter Speed: 1/60th

Shutter Speed: 1/30th

Shutter Speed: 2"

3. For the following photographs, I used a tripod to hold the camera steady and the shutter speed was set at 1" second.

In this series of photographs, I used a chair to emulate a person walking through the shot as I was alone the night it was done.

4. In this next series of photographs, I used a tripod and a shutter speed of 2" seconds to capture these images. You can only see light trails on the roads, but the actual subjects were cars.

The last photograph is out of focus because I liked how the lights turned into circles in the background and how the entire image became really soft and faded. I liked how it turned out so I posted on  here as part of the set.