Tutorial 3 Finished

Today's lecture and tutorial was all about shutter speed and motion. The idea behind shutter speed is not complicated; the higher the number the slower the shutter speed, the reverse is also true. When shooting at a slow shutter speed and trying to capture something's movements and showing them as a whole (i.e. a creek that looks smooth but isn't) it's better to use an ISO that permits less light, or to shoot closer to dusk. Today we focused on shooting four different types of photographs. The first is entitled, "The Ghost" because the movement of the person through the photograph makes it seems like the person walking through is ghostlike.

If my memory serves me correctly this was taken on a one or two second shutter speed. This allowed for the ghost-like visual of passing across the floor.

My action still is a picture of moving water. The shot was taken with a higher shutter speed in order to freeze something moving in a single frame.

The two previous pictures were taken at a shutter speed of 1/60. This captured the car frozen against a motioned back ground demonstrating the fact that the car was moving (my action shot).

The final picture was taken with a 30 second shutter speed in a dark room. The figure eight created was my iPhone with the light on and my moving my hand around. It created a cool effect and I feel that it really demonstrates the different things changing shutter speed can do. If I had more time, I would've done it again and gotten the entire figure 8 in the photo.

I thought this lesson was really helpful because it demonstrated the different uses of shutter speed. In the future it will help take more intricate pictures of moving objects. I think for my portfolio I might take a picture at a sporting event.