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Shutter speed and Movement

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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.

here the shutter speed is slower and therefore the camera lens takes in more light to capture longer images

1/8 sec , f/29

this is also demonstrated here with an even lower shutter speed , we can tell as the lights and background are blurred due to camera movement

Displayed in this photo is a higher shutter speed to capture a crisp image despite the subject moving

Fast shutter speed freezes the motion in your image. Fast shutter speed is 1/125 sec or faster. 1/1000 sec is super fast shutter speed. Fast shutter speed lets less light into your camera and will effect exposure making your images darker.

photo info: 1/250 seconds , f/5

Francesca woodman:

Francesca woodman was a female photographer mainly recognised for her black and white self images

 Many of her photographs show women, naked or clothed, blurred, merging with their surroundings, or whose faces are obscured

Here we took inspiration from her work that often portray ghostly and eerie feelings

Francesca Woodman photographed herself, often nude, in empty interiors. But her pictures are not traditional self-portraits. She is usually half hidden by objects or furniture or appears as a blur. The images convey an underlying sense of human fragility. This fragility is exaggerated by the fact that the photographs are printed on a very small scale – they seem personal and intimate.

Most of the photographs in the ARTIST ROOMS collection come from Francesca’s former boyfriend Benjamin P. Moore. She gave him the photographs, and many of them include intimate messages written in their margins. The messages become part of the artwork.

Woodman continuously explored and tested what she could do with photography. She challenged the idea that the camera fixes time and space – something that had always been seen as one of the fundamentals of photography. She playfully manipulated light, movement and photographic effects, and used carefully selected props, vintage clothing and decaying interiors to add a mysterious gothic atmosphere to the work.
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.

source of information : https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/francesca-woodman-10512/finding-francesca

In addition to its effect on exposure, the shutter speed changes the way movement appears in photographs. Very short shutter speeds can be used to freeze fast-moving subjects, for example at sporting events. Very long shutter speeds are used to intentionally blur a moving subject for effect.

photo info : 8/5 seconds f/5

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PHOTOSHOOT : Paper

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Using Lightroom’s flag system I cut down my selection of photos to minimise the amount of photos
Shown here is my reduced selection of images
To compare my photos i used light rooms X and Y feature demonstrated here
I then started to develop my chosen image further in Lightroom
Here we used aperture to create a blurred background and introduce the focal point of the image
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ISO and Shutter Speed

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ISO Sensitivity is a standard set by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) that represents sensitivity to light as a numerical value. A higher number indicates a higher sensitivity and a greater ability to capture light. The ISO Sensitivity is set and changed in the shooting settings menu.

Shutter Speed is also a useful tool when it comes to ISO as using a longer shutter speed to allow for more light to enter the camera allowing for the subject to be properly lit without noise or grain in the photo. However this does lead to movement blur


Noise lurks in the shadows, so when you raise the exposure in processing, you actually make the noise more visible throughout your image. That means a photo taken with a lower ISO and underexposed will have MORE grain than an image taken with a higher ISO, but correctly (or even over) exposed.

This is demonstrated here in this photo , as there was less light in the area and therefore a lower ISO was used in order to allow for the subjects to be seen clearer , this led to noise and grain in the image that’s more noticeable when zoomed in.

Demonstrated here is another example of using shutter speed as a replacement for ISO to reduce noise and allow exposure in the photo.

Shutter speed was also used here to increase the brightness in the photo to make the shadow more visible
Despite the bright atmosphere we used a low exposure which is made clear as the quality is grainy rather than clear
To create silhouette we used a higher ISO creating a dim effect and emphasis the shapes of the subject
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aperture photos

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Here the foreground is out of focus and the subject is in the background in focus
If you want everything in your image to be sharp and in focus, then you’ll want to use a small aperture (large f-stop number). This is often desirable for landscape shots, group photos, and other situations where you want everything to be sharp.

This is depicted here , the foreground and background is in focus although the focus is clearly on the subject.

Shown here is the details of the photo which include :

f/29 , ISO 250 1/60 seconds which explains how the photo is all in focus.

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summer task part 2

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Ernst haas.

Famous for his use of water , light and colour to create inticing and eye catching imagery

Ernst Haas (March 2, 1921 – September 12, 1986) was an Austrian-American photojournalistand color photographer. During his 40-year career Haas trod the line between photojournalism and art photography. In addition to his coverage of events around the globe after World War II Haas was an early innovator in color photography. His images were carried by magazines like Life and Vogue and, in 1962, were the subject of the first single-artist exhibition of color photography at New York’s Museum of Modern Art. He served as president of the cooperative Magnum Photos. His book of volcano photographs, The Creation (1971), remains one of the most successful photography books ever published, selling more than 350,000 copies.[1]

Ernst Haas pioneered the use of color photography at a time when it was considered inferior to black-and-white as a medium for serious creative photographers.

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apeture and depth of feild

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controls the amount of light that enters through iris in the lens and is measured in f/stop , you can adjust this by changing said f/stops.

Depth of field is defined as what is in focus in front and behind the subject , shallow depth in field has limited things in focus often with a blurred background this requires f/stop of f/2 or f/4. Depth of field is defined by aperture the higher the number the more in focus an example of this would be f/16 or f/22.

Aperture Priority and Depth of Field in Digital Photography

Shutter speed: 1/180

Aperture: 2.8

ISO setting: 400

As seen here the high aperture is f/2.8 meaning the depth of field in lower keeping less in focus