Assignment # 3 / Shutter Extremes

Shutter Speed is the amount of time that light is exposing the film for, if you need more in-depth information please click here.

Simply put Shutter Speed is:

• Shutter speed is the amount of time that the camera shutter remains open
• The more time light goes through the aperture the more movement it captures

A fast shutter speed will appear to “freeze” motion, 1/60th of a second and lower.

For this assignment:

10 final images from and FULL roll of film. (Take multiples to insure your image is focused and comes out the way you intend it to)

You will take images of the following parings:

D.O.F type & Composition

Freeze Motion

Blurred Motion

Rule of Thirds

x

x

Perspective/ Leading Lines

x

x

Simplicity

x

x

Frame within a Frame

x

x

Negative Space/ Balance

x

x

Total: 10 images

You will turn in 5 final prints, each representing a compositional rule as well as:

• 2 Photographs Freezing motion, (using a shutter speed of 500th of a second or above) you must still use your light meter and compensate with the aperture
• 2 Photographs Blurring motion, (using a shutter speed of a 20th of a second or below) remember to either use a tripod, use panning or set your camera down o avoid having a completely blurry image, (you must still listed to your light meter and compensate with the aperture)
• 1 Free Choice Print
• Your contact sheet with the selected 10 final images marked and the key

Subject Matter/Theme:

You may choose a subject matter of your own interest. The photographs do not need to be variations of the same topic, although they can be. It may be helpful to try a couple of versions of the same subject matter as an experiment.

Ideas: Shoot at night, paint with light, panning, shoot moving water (like rivers, oceans and the res), freeze motion during a sporting event or rain falling.

Reminders:

Use your light meter

Load your camera well!

Shoot 1 roll of film (24 frames minimum) , shoot multiples of the same pairing!

Remember to focus you lens carefully (take it off the automatic setting)

Have Fun!