Shutter Speed Experiment

Camera Shake

For the camera shake, i took pictures with a shutter speed of 1/30 which is quite slow. Whilst I was taking the picture I shook my camera to give it a blurred effect. Personally I don't like the photo because of the blurriness, although it's quite abstract so it could be used as other forms of photography.







For this picture I set it with a faster shutter speed, 1/600. I then shook the camera again whilst taking the picture but this time it came out with a much sharper better quality picture. I prefer this picture because it's more 'correct'.

Abstract Motion Blur

The image to the left is a  portrait I took with a shutter speed of 1/8th of a second and zoomed in whilst I was taking the picture. This created a nice affectat the edges making it look good, although the person in the picture is blurred. I think this makes the picture unappealing, if it was focused I would prefer it a lot more.

Whilst I was taking the picture on the right I rotated the camera. This again created a blurred image but I tthink it has a good effect. Whereas the other image isn't focused on anything this one is focused and has almost an attractive ghost effect.

Light Writing and Painting

With light painting you have to be in a dark room, and the shutter speed has to be quite long. With this picture we were in the studio with all the lights out and a shutter speed of 6". With the torch on my phone I wrote my name 'Poppy'. It took a few tries to get it readable because you have to write it bacwards to get it the right way onthe image. The only thing wrong with this picture is there's a mirror in the bottom left corner that looks wrong to be in the image and because it was my first time light painting the writing isn't very clear.

Ghosts

For the ghost experiment i had my camera on a tripod to keep it steady, this was because I had quite a long shutter speed to get a good effect. For the first part of the experiment we had the shutter speed set to 6 seconds the person in frame stood as still as possible for 2 seconds and rushed out of the frame. This gave a really good ghost effect making the person look practically see through. For the second part of the experiment we us a shutter speed of 4 seconds, the person in frame stood there for almost 3 seconds and rushed out as quick as they could. This meant the person in the frame was more defined and visible.

Frozen in Motion

For this experiment I had to have a really quick shutter speed, such as 1/1000, i also had an ISO 400. This meant I could capture motion really well what I did was take a picture of someone jumping off some stairs. I think this picture is really successful because I took it at the right time while Shaun was still in the air. Also you can see his hair sticking up, this gives a really good appearance of motion within the photograph.