Shutter Speed

This picture was taken using a shutter speed of 2 seconds; we did this by going into a dark room, pointing a torch at the camera, pressing the shutter button and then moving the torch to create whatever shape you want. In this case Abbi decided to make a heart. I think this had a really cool effect and is defiantly something I would like to do again. I think this image would have looked better if the room was even darker because the toilet in the background does not look very nice. I also think that we should have taken it using a tripod so the background didn’t have quite so much motion blur.

This image was taken with a much shorter shutter speed and was about 1/60^th of a second. It shows Abbi mid-jump and the short shutter speed has frozen her in time. I tried to take this photo at dynamic angle to make it more interesting. The image is slightly out of focus because I did not use the focus ring correctly and I think that I was too far away from my subject so it hard to tell what is the focal point of the image.

This final image was taken with an incredibly short shutter speed of about 1/640^th of a second. We had to try and take this photo in a few different locations because so little light was being let into the camera that it caused all the photos to come out dark, however after finding a very sunny spot I think this photo came out well. The short shutter speed has made the water look really good and you can see all the individual drops really clearly. I think this photo would have looked a lot better if I had zoomed in on the water more, however this may have caused it to come out too dark. Shutter speed is defiantly something I want to experiment more with in the future.

 

Here is another example of a short shutter speed that I took when the river flooded near where I live. Although the water is fast flowing the short shutter speed makes it look frozen. If the shutter speed was longer the water would appear to have a much smoother texture.