Shutter speed is exactly what it sounds like: It’s the speed at which the shutter of the camera closes. A fast shutter speed creates a shorter exposure — the amount of light the camera takes in — and a slow shutter speed gives the photographer a longer exposure.

This is an example of a fan shown in slow to fast shutter speed.

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In this photoshoot, we explored the shutter speed by playing a boxing game. Capturing fast moving boxing actions, trying to dodge the camera creating some blurrier pictures then others; this is due to the use of shutter speed, how much light is being let into the camera.

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In this photoshoot, we also explored shutter speed by attempting to throw three balls in a straight line, using shutter speed to determine how blurry or clear the photos will turn out.

John Baldessari

John Anthony Baldessari was an American conceptual artist known for his work featuring found photography and appropriated images. He lived and worked in Santa Monica and Venice, California. Initially a painter, Baldessari began to incorporate texts and photography into his canvases in the mid-1960s.

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Artists that inspired me:

Noemie Goudal:

David Goldblatt:

My place:

My person:

My object:

My final three images:

My final pieces:

Shutter speed is the speed at which the shutter of the camera closes. A fast shutter speed creates a shorter exposure, the amount of light the camera takes in, and a slow shutter speed gives the photographer a longer exposure .The faster the shutter is set, the better your chance to snap a great action shot and get it looking clear. However, the faster the shutter is set, the less light will come in.

For Example

Photo -games

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In the photoshoot, we explored the shutter speed by playing a boxing game. Capturing boxing actions, changing and playing around with the shutter speed . Some created sharp photographs some created blurry images, due to the use of the shutter speed, the amount of light being let into the camera.

Ball games

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Here are our attempts to recreating John Baldessaris work, by throwing 3 balls into the air and capturing them on a low shutter speed to capture a sharp image.

John Baldessari

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John Anthony Baldessari was an American conceptual artist known for his work featuring found photography and appropriated images. He lived and worked in Santa Monica and Venice, California. Initially a painter, Baldessari began to incorporate texts and photography into his canvases in the mid-1960s.

    Man Ray 

Man Ray uses techniques such as “rayographs”without a camera by placing objects such as the thumbtacks,coil of wires, and other circular forms used here-directly on a sheet of photosensitized paper and exposing it to light. Not having any colour allows the viewer to add their own colour into the image, making it somewhat more personal and more their own. The formal elements which are quite important in this piece of work is definitely shape, because it tells you what exactly the image is of, and because there is no colour the photogram technique relays a lot on shape. Rays unique approaches to photography and his ability to explore the unconscious with everyday items. He was also influenced by many people such as Francis Picabia,Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres and Robert Henri.

Photoshoot plan

Concept – Taking Portraits of someone who has a relation to Jersey

Location – Jersey, Trinity

Equipment – DSLR Camera, Model

Shot Type – Straight on, Portrait

Lighting – Natural, Soft

Contact Sheet – Person

I took a range of images of my Dad in his spear fishing kit, in different areas to create a selection of images to choose from. From these images I narrowed it down to 3 images to Edit.

Image Selection

I choose these images as I felt they are in focus and the facial expressions show how much he enjoys fishing in Jersey.

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Photoshoot Plan

Concept – Images of still objets with relation to the portrait

Location – St Helier Harbour

Equipment – I-Phone Camera

Shot type – high

Pieter Claesz

He painted with tangible detail and carefully observed light effects, and sought to enhance the illusion of reality by arranging objects on the table so that they appear to recede in space. Between 1630 and 1640 Claesz adopted a more subdued, monochromatic palette.His images reflect a dark somber mood, his use of lighting creates this feel.The style of still life was called Vanitas. It shows worldly things are worthless when you die. This was a depressing view on the world. Pieter Claesz was influenced by the artist movement ‘Vanitas’.

In my attempt of recreating still life, I photographed small boats.

Contact Sheet – Object

For my objects I took images of small boats in the harbour, which links to the idea of my Dads passion of fishing in the jersey waters. Also creating an abstract feel to the photographs. Many of the small boats have lots of colour making the pictures interesting.

Image Selection

Experimenting changing my images into black and white

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Final 3 images

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These 3 images link to the theme of my jersey as my Dad has been passionate about fishing and spearing fishing all his life. Taking part in many local competitions round the island, his love for fishing carries on through the family encouraging my younger brother to also take part. Some of his favourite places to fish is down at Boyley Bay and Portlet. Growing up around the beaches on the island the sea is home for my Dad and our family. Many of our family memories were made on the beaches and on boats.

John Baldessari

John Baldessari is known as the father of conceptual art for his unique ideas and his dependency on the concept of luck. His works compiled elements of game-playing, accidents and chance, and he used different camera settings to enrich them. One of these settings that he used was different shutter speeds, which we experimented with in this photoshoot.

Shutter speed

Shutter speed within a camera controls exposure, or the amount of time the shutter has to let in light while capturing the image. It is measured in either full seconds, or fractions of a second, the shorter the exposure, the clearer and less motion-blurred the photograph will be. Longer exposures are typically used when the camera is supported by a tripod, as the camera usually shakes quite a bit when held in a photographer’s hand.

Photogames – Shutter speed (Shadowboxing)

We used different shutter speeds (1/30, 1/150, 1/250) to capture movement. First we took images of different movements by shadowboxing with the cameraman – here’s some of the better results.

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The rest of the images that we took here were either blurred, out of focus, overexposed, or just didn’t work out in some form.

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Photogames – Shutter speed (Balls)

We then threw three balls into the air and tried to capture images of them in different shapes in mid-air, the best photographs resulting in the shape of a (nearly) straight line and a triangle.

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The rest of the photos that we took didn’t turn out so well, even after we started taking turns photographing and throwing the balls in the air.

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The word aperture comes from the Latin for ‘opening’. This relates to the function of aperture – aperture is the degree to which the curtain inside the camera opens to allow light into the image. Aperture is measured with f-stops; ranging from as low as f/0.7 (used by NASA to film the moon – though of course most common cameras will use about f/2 at their lowest) to as high as f/45 (used to provide the maximum depth of field possible for a macro lens. Again, common cameras will use about f/16 or f/32 at their highest).

However, using the words low and high when discussing aperture may lead to confusion, due to the system that aperture uses. The ‘low’ aperture numbers signify the larger opening in the camera’s curtain – letting more light into the image, but the ‘high’ aperture numbers signify a smaller opening in the camera’s curtain – letting less light into the image.

Aperture does not just refer to light however – it also relates to the depth of field one can capture in an image. This is shown in the diagram below.

Here are some examples of images taken with wide apertures.

Here are some examples of images taken with narrow apertures.

As you can see, in the first set of images, only the closest/chosen elements of the composition are in focus, but in the second set, the entire image is in focus.

Shutter speed is the speed at which the shutter of the camera closes. A fast shutter speed creates a shorter exposure — the amount of light the camera takes in — and a slow shutter speed gives the photographer a longer exposure. The faster the shutter speed, the sharper the image will be. Therefore, the slower the shutter speed, the more blurred the image is.

What do you use shutter speed for?

Shutter speed works in units of time, fractions of a second or several seconds. A higher/faster shutter speed allows less light to hit the camera sensor or film strip. Conversely, a lower/slower shutter speed allows more light to pass into your camera

PHOTO GAME.

We tested the use of shutter speed by moving at different speeds at the camera.

JOHN BALDESSARI

John Anthony Baldessari was an American conceptual artist known for his work featuring found photography and appropriated images.

3 BALLS IN A LINE.

In 1973, Baldessari came up with the idea to throw three balls in the air at the same time to attempt to get a photo of them in a straight line. whist he was throwing the three balls, his wife was capturing the image. he attempted this shoot thirty six times.

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We went outside to box the camera and throw balls up in the sky while adjusting the shutter speed.

Throwing:

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Boxing:

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