WHAT IS SHUTTER SPEED?

Shutter speed is the speed at which the shutter of the camera closes. The size of the shutter speed effects how the image turns out. On a faster shutter speed, the image will be sharper and more clear whereas on a slow shutter speed, the picture will be more blurry.

For example, a slow shutter speed of 1/2 means the camera is letting light into the lens for half a second, whereas a fast shutter speed of 1/2000 means the shutter is open for one-two-thousandths of a second.

PHOTOSHOOT

For my photoshoot, I aimed to create as much movement as possible to show off the effects of a slow shutter speed. We started off by throwing balls into the air and capturing their fall before trying to create movement with our bodies. To do this we tried multiple actions including spinning, jumping, punching, etc.

BEST SHOTS

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EDITING BEST SHOT

To start off, I knew I wanted to change the brightness as they pictures were way too bright, then I focused on just making the overall picture better. After that, I used the dodge and burn tool on photoshop to really define the areas that I wanted to pop out more.

Here are the adjustments I made:

THE FINAL EDIT

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JOHN BALDESSARI RESEARCH

John Baldessari was initially an artist but began to incorporate photography in his canvas in the mid-1960s. He was born June 17, 1931 in California and attended Sweetwater High School and San Diego State College where he received his Master of Arts in Painting. He then went on to study at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of California, Los Angeles. In 1956, he started a painting class at San Diego State College, and he continued to teach along with creating his own works of art for the rest of his career. In 1970, he began working in printmaking, film, video, sculpture, and photography before moving into photomontage in 1980.

In 1970, John Baldessari and five friends burnt all of the paintings he had created in the time between 1953 to 1966 as a part of a new project he call The Cremation Project. He baked the ashes of the painting into cookies and placed in an urn. Throughout this process, Baldessari created connections between artistic practice and the human life cycle.

Depth of field

Depth of field is how much your image focuses s the distance between the nearest and the furthest objects that are in acceptably sharp focus in an image captured with a camera.

Shutter speed is the speed at which the cameras shutter closes at, you can either get a fast or slow shutter speed, a fast shutter speed causes a shorter exposure-the amount of light taken in through the camera, a slow shutter speed gives a longer exposure.

What is photography?

Where did it all start?

Photography all started in 1822 when it was invented but it was only in 1826 whenJoseph Nicéphore Niépce took the first photo even though it got lost it still holds the title for the oldest photo.

Photography is the art of light and how the use of light can form an image you are able to create it with recording light, digitally with a sensor or chemically (on film which gets chemically developed).

Photography is highly mobile as you can take a photo at any time and at any place,

They can move over in time and have different meanings and concepts behind each photo.

With photography it is unpredictable, and you will never know the outcome of a photo until you take it, each photo tells a different story, and each story is also different as each person has a different perception of the image. In photography no two photos are the same.

A photo is instantly there, it can be difficult to understand causing it to be mysterious. You are able to give a photo a story by accompanying it with other photos or describing the photo whilst photographers may give background information about the photo, they are still giving the audience the creative freedom on how they view the photograph, there for you as the audience are able to take charge of the photograph.

Every photo capture someone’s attention for a reason because they relate to it, find it mysterious, are intrigued by it or you simply just like it. You look at an image more than once and each time you look at it more in depth and each time you pick up on the smaller details of the photograph. What a photo captures has the capability to mean something else as the meanings behind photos can be complicated. Photography is used to take advantage of the gift the world has given us; you are able to learn photography and the concepts behind it quickly but it’s mastering the art of photography may take up to a lifetime to learn.

Each photo is taken through the eyes of the photographer there for you see their concept of the world or topic they are taking photographs of, there for some people may find lightning destructive and powerful but other may find it majestical so those photographers may have two very different looking photos due to their opinion on the subject.

Photography can be seen as a form as art due to how you are able to manipulate photos into how the photographer wants the audience to view them. The purpose of photography is to communicate and document moments in time.

Yves Klein

This photo uses David Campany’s quote “photographs confuse as much as fascinate, conceal as much as reveal, distract as much as compel.” as you as the consumer of the photograph can’t understand why someone would photograph someone jumping off a building but at the same time its fascinating as to why is the man jumping, the photo is able to show a lot of emotion as to how the person might interpret the photo it also conceals how the photo was made and why the photo was made.

you can only find out how and why the image was made if you research it as the photo doesn’t tell the story behind it, the photo it’s self tells a different story.

Where did it all start and how?

Photography began in the late 1830s in France. Joseph Nicéphore Niépce used a portable camera obscura to expose a pewter plate coated with bitumen to light. This is the first recorded image that did not fade quickly.

The development of cameras:

At first, photography was either used as an aid in the work of an painter or followed the same principles the painters followed. The first publicly recognized portraits were usually portraits of one person, or family portraits. Finally, after decades of refinements and improvements, the mass use of cameras began in earnest with Eastman’s Kodak’s simple-but-relatively-reliable cameras. Kodak’s camera went on to the market in 1888 with the slogan “You press the button, we do the rest”.

In 1900 the Kodak Brownie was introduced, becoming the first commercial camera in the market available for middle-class buyers. The camera only took black and white shots, but still was very popular due to its efficiency and ease of use.

Coloured photography was explored throughout the 19th century, but it wasn’t till the 20th century when it became more commercially viable.

Alfred Stieglitz

https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/stgp/hd_stgp.htm

Photography became a part of day-to-day life and an art movement. One of the people behind photography as art was Alfred Stieglitz, an American photographer and a promoter of modern art. Stieglitz said that photographers are artists, the first photography art movement whose primary task was to show that photography was not only about the subject of the picture but also the manipulation by the photographer that led to the subject being portrayed.

How do you define photography?

The word Photography literally means ‘drawing with light’, which derives from the Greek photo, meaning light and graph, meaning to draw. Photography is the process of recording an image a photograph on light sensitive film or, in the case of digital photography, via a digital electronic or magnetic memory.

Whats the purpose of photography?

Essentially, the purpose of photography is to communicate and document moments in time. When you take a photograph and share it with others, you’re showing a moment that was frozen through a picture. This moment can tell someone many things, from the environment to what people are doing.

Why is photography important today?

Photography is important because we can document something and have it forever. Photography lets us see something we may never have noticed otherwise. Photography is a way to express your ideas for others to see.

This photograph is important to the readers intention as it leaves them confused/ questioning whether Yves Klein (the photographer and person ‘leaping in the picture) actually jumped. he described it as jumping into a void, to give the mysterious affect on his audience and keep them engaged and curious. The background story of this picture is actually that Yves had his friends to hold a tarpaulin to catch him as he fell, the other the surrounding scene (without the tarp)–were then printed together to create a seamless “documentary” photograph. To complete the illusion that he was capable of flight, Klein distributed a fake broadsheet at Parisian newsstands commemorating the event.

Yves main aim/ reason to create this photograph was to draw as many peoples attention to it so his work would be more advertised and recognised.