Experimentation

In photography, shutter speed or exposure time is the length of time when the film or digital sensor inside the camera is exposed to light, also when a camera's shutter is open when taking a photograph. The amount of light that reaches the film or image sensor is proportional to the exposure time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_speed

Here is a mood board:

Here are my experimentations.  I learnt the slower the shutter speed, the higher the exposure, so I had to do a lot of adjusting to the ISO and apeture. This is my first time experimenting with shutter speed, so therefore my images aren't amazing because I was constantly learning how much I should adjust my ISO and apeture to.

I like the photos of Imani shaking her head because it appears she has multiple faces. To create this image I slowed the shutter speed and because the image was taken inside in a dark area, I adjusted my ISO and apeture a little higher then the photos I took outside where they were very low.  I believe next time that I can adjust the white balance because the images have an orange tone to them. My mistake of taking photos of tom rubbing his faca and moving his glasses is that I didn't focus of the backgrounf. If I made him sit the other side of the table then the background wouldn't be so light and distract the image.

Here are some examples of the images I manipulated:

I feel that the images look a lot better in black and white. I used adobe lightroom and applied a black and white preset to my images. I then adjusted the clarity, exposure, contrast, highlights and shadows of the image until I was satisfied with how the image looked. The last image is an experimentation because I wanted to see what the image would look like if the white balance was corrected. I used the white balance correcter tool to balance out the background. I then adjusted the contrast, exposure, highlights, shadows, clarity and saturation of the image until I was happy with the results. Personally I prefer the black and white images because I find that it is easier to focus on what's going on in the images, the colours distort and distract the image too much. However, I am glad that I had adjusted the final image and fixed the white balance issue.