Eadweard Muybridge is remembered today for his pioneering photographic studies of motion, which ultimately led to the development of cinema. He was hired to photograph a horse’s movement to prove that a horse’s hooves are clear of the ground at a trot.

The above images are taken with fast shutter speed. Fast shutter speeds of 1/500th are used for capturing rapidly moving objects, such as freezing a race car hitting its top speed. The slower the shutter speed, the more motion blur your camera will capture when shooting fast-moving subjects.

Slow shutter speeds include 1/15 – which is an excellent shutter speed for panning moving subjects. 1/8 – This shutter speed will blur fast-moving objects. 1/4 – Will blur people when walking. 1/2 – You will be able to get slow-moving water with a blur.

Francesca Woodman’s family spent their summers at her parents’ farmhouse in the countryside near Florence in Italy and many of her photographs were taken there. European culture and art had a significant impact on her artistic development. The influence of surrealist art, particularly the photographs of Man Ray and Claude Cahun can be seen in the themes and style of her work. She developed her ideas and skills as a student at Rhode Island School of Design. Her importance as an innovator is significant, particularly in the context of the 1970s when the status of photography was still regarded as less important than painting and sculpture. She led the way for later American artists who used photography to explore themes relating to identity such as Cindy Sherman and Nan Goldin.

Hiroshi Sugimoto is a Japanese photographer and architect. He leads the Tokyo-based architectural firm New Material Research Laboratory. Hiroshi Sugimoto is best known for black and white photographs of particular subjects that he has explored in depth over many years: images of natural-history dioramas, wax-figure installations, sublime seascapes, and ornate movie theatre interiors.

plan for tomorrow: come in grab a camera go outside use slow shutter speed to get a clear shot of a bike then use fast shutter speed to capture a moving bike these two photos demonstrate the differences in shutter speed.

Here are some of my photos and our class photoshoot

We successfully experimented with slow and fast shutter speed to achieve these brilliant photos