DUE ON FRIDAY 12-17

• PORTRAITS (contact sheet and 2 prints)
• STILL LIFE/LIGHT BOX - negatives processed.
• 3+ good, different, unique digital images demonstrating different slow shutter techniques
  

Your task for today

Sharing a digital SLR with a friend you will be shooting 3 different slow shutter images. Try and mix up the technique used (motion of the subject, motion of the background, motion of a light source (cell phone?).

Shooting with slow shutter speeds

There are lots of opportunities to use the adjustable shutter on ones camera to create unique and interesting photographs.

One technique is to capture motion:

Capturing movement in images is something that many photographers only think to do when they are photographing sports or other fast moving subjects.

While there is an obvious opportunity in sports photography to emphasize the movement of participants – almost every type of photography can benefit from the emphasis of movement in a shot – even when the movement is very small, slow and/or subtle.

Read more: http://www.digital-photography-school.com/how-to-capture-motion-blur-in-photography#ixzz180T82VXg


There are a ways to achieve this:

1. Blurred Subject With Background In Focus

photo by paulaloe

Let’s assume you’re photographing a speeding train against a wall of trees in the background. You can blur the train while leaving the trees in focus. Doing so would instantly communicate to the viewer that the train is moving quickly. To accomplish this, you would use a slow shutter speed. (It’s also important to use a tripod. That way, your camera remains steady.) You’ll often see this technique used in nighttime photographs with car headlights cutting through the image.

Image by Extra Medium

2. Blurred Background With Subject In Focus

This second technique keeps your photograph’s subject in sharp focus while the background is blurred. Using our train example, the train would be in focus and the wall of trees would be blurred, thereby conveying the train’s movement. Similar to the first method, you need to use a slow shutter speed. However, instead of using a tripod, you’ll be panning your camera along the directional path of your subject.

Panning Explained

Some more examples:

Photo by Mr Bones - No exposure settings supplied

Today, as a followup to our post earlier in the week A Beginners Guide to Capturing Motion in Your Photography I want to post a series of posts from Flickr that all illustrate a variation on the same theme – movement.

The following shots are all of moving subjects where the photographer has made the choice to set their camera to capture the movement as blur rather than freezing it. This is in all cases by choosing (or letting the camera choose) a ’slow’ shutter speed (although by slow you’ll see that the speeds (noted under each image) vary from anything from 1/30 second to up to 40 minutes).

Photo by Ben McLeod – Shutter Speed – 8 seconds

Photo by zane&inzane - Exposure Time – 10 minutes

Photo by PhotoToasty – Composition of 3 images at shutter speeds of between 1.6 seconds and 25 seconds

Photo by Amnemona – No exposure settings given

Photo by Sara Heinrichs – Exposure Time: 20 seconds

Photo by Mace2000 – 50 second exposure time

Photo by WisDoc – Shutter Speed – 1/30

Photo by Mace2000 – Shutter Speed – 50 seconds

Photo by Wam Mosely – Shutter speed – 4/5 of a second

Photo by Mace2000 – Exposure Time – 43 seconds

Photo by jon madison – Exposure – photographer estimates somewhere between 30-40 minutes

Photo by thorinside – Shutter Speed – 13 seconds

Photo by tschnitzlein – No Exposure information given

Read more: http://www.digital-photography-school.com/blur-movement#ixzz180U3GIzf

Another technique is Light Painting:

Digital Photography School Forum member Sodaman420 couldn’t have done a better job introducing the technique of Light Painting. His video is posted here. Light is what makes up your photos. Perhaps too often we limit ourselves to the normal diffused lighting we are used to seeing. Locking your camera down on a tripod and setting it for a slow shutter speed allows you to manually get some movement on the lights in your scene. Experiment with flashlights, rope lights, candles or anything handy. In the picture here I had a friend sit perfectly still in a completely dark room. I set the shutter to be roughly the time it would take me to walk around his chair holding a candle (8 seconds). His face was entirely lit by candlelight. Since I was moving too quickly to get in the shot, all you see is the floating flame. I know, it turned out a little demonic, but unintentionally. This is just to get your ideas flowing.

Read more here:

http://www.photographymad.com/blog/post/painting-with-light

The last technique is turning darkness into day, with this the shutter speed is so slow that it makes a night scene look as if the sun is out...

Programmed Auto Mode - Underexposed

Fujifilm FinePix E550 7.2mm, Programmed Auto, Pattern Shutter Speed 1/4 sec., Aperture F2.8, ISO 80

In the above example, the camera uses the slowest shutter speed and largest aperture available in P mode and at the widest focal length. The picture is underexposed.

Manual Mode - Overexposed

Fujifilm FinePix E550 7.2mm, Manual, Pattern Shutter Speed 3 sec., Aperture F2.8, ISO 80

Switching to Manual mode allows me to access the slowest shutter speed available on this camera, 3 sec. while keeping the aperture at F2.8 (the largest aperture available). The effect is immediately better, but it does seem a bit too bright, giving almost a daylight effect. If this is the effect you're after, then you're done. But if you wanted to capture the night mood, read on.

Now it is just a matter of adjusting the shutter speed and/or aperture to obtain the desired exposure. I choose to close down the aperture so as to increase the depth of field also.

Manual Mode - Correct Exposure

Fujifilm FinePix E550 7.2mm, Manual, Pattern Shutter Speed 3 sec., Aperture F4.0, ISO 80

Closing down the aperture to F4.0, a more pleasant image is obtained with enough dark areas to indicate it is night time (dusk, really) and enough lighted areas to reproduce what my eyes saw at the outdoors skating rink at the Mississauga Civic Center.

Due today

• Portrait Contact Sheet
• 2 portraits (1+ using double exposure)
• 23 question quiz
• 3 fav portraits + 3 questions

grades will be updated this afternoon.

photo quiz - with a historical slant

1. Who below was the first person to successfully "fix" a photographic image, thus becoming the father of photography?

	A. George Eastman
	B. Thomas Edison
	C. Joseph Nicéphore Niépce
	D. Samuel Morse

2. The first photograph ever made by the above gentleman is in the collection of

	A. the Louvre
	B. the Bibliothèque Nationale
	C. the Metropolitan Museum of Art
	D. The University of Texas at Austin

3. A curator of photography at the Museum of Modern Art was

	A. Leopold Stokowski
	B. Igor Sikorski
	C. John Szarkowski
	D. Leon Trotsky

4. Who below did not help popularize the nude in photography?

	A. Hugh Hefner
	B. William Mortensen
	C. Bunny Yeager
	D. Wallace Nutting

5. Which name is the most difficult to pronounce?

	A. Gyula Halász
	B. George Hoyningen-Huené
	C. László Moholy-Nagy
	D. They all give pause to even the most photographically literate among us.

6. Really famous people just need one name; which one below is the photographer?

	A. Madonna
	B. Cantinflas
	C. Brassaï
	D. Pelé

7. If Alfred Stieglitz didn’t think you were worthy enough to own a print from his gallery, he would

	A. call 911
	B. not sell it to you
	C. have you taken out the back door
	D. sic Georgia on you

8. Who below was the first to make aerial photographs?

	A. Charles Lindbergh
	B. the Red Baron
	C. Nadar
	D. Timothy Leary

9. What group did Alfred Steiglitz found?

	A. Linked Ring Brotherhood
	B. Photo-Secession
	C. Rat Pack
	D. Association of International Photography Art Dealers, Inc.

10. Which painter below used photography?

	A. Rembrandt
	B. Piet Mondrian
	C. Thomas Eakins
	D. John James Audubon

11. Name a famous photographer's model.

	A. Whistler's mother
	B. Lee Miller
	C. Brenda Lee
	D. Taco Bell chihuahua

12. In attempting to produce the ultimate in photographic quality, the F 64 Group was famous for its members'

	A. opening their lenses up to f 64
	B. stopping their lenses down to f 64
	C. always using tripods
	D. never photographing things that move

13. Which of these other single-name people is associated with fine-art photography?

	A. Fabio
	B. Twinka
	C. Fabian
	D. Liberace 14. Which of these photographers is not dead? A. Alfred Eisenstadt B. Yousuf Karsh C. Aaron Siskind D. Berenice Abbott 15. The Department of Photography at the Museum of Modern Art was established in A. 1066 B. 1954 C. 1922 D. 1940 16. Later in his life Ansel Adams used A. a Minox B. an 8 x 10 view camera C. a Hasselblad D. no camera. John Sexton snapped the shutter for him. 17. Name the photographic duo. A. Ferrani and Tycher B. Hill and Adamson C. Gilbert and Sullivan D. Hans and Franz 18. Photographs have a history of mistreatment. For example, some of the glass negatives from the Civil War were used as A. broken glass atop walls to keep out the enemy B. greenhouse roofing tiles C. protection when viewing solar eclipses D. Frisbees 19. Which of the photographers below is not known for using multiple negatives in their imagery? A. Jerry N. Uelsmann B. Angus McBean (what a great name!) C. Allen A. Dutton D. W. Eugene Smith 20. People from which organization below were blacklisted during the McCarthy era? A. Association of International Photography Art Dealers, Inc. B. Photographic Society of America C. Photo League D. American Society of Magazine Photographers 21. Alfred Stieglitz called his cloud photographs A. Similarities B. Equivalents C. Likenesses D. Equalities 22. Eadweard Muybridge proved with his motion study photographs that A. in each stride of a gallop all four hooves of a horse are off the ground at the same time B. in each stride of a gallop a horse's ears lay back to the same angle as its tail C. cameras can indeed be used to determine the winner of a photo-finish D. a horse can outrun a locomotive 23. Which best describes photography gallery owners? A. a great bunch of folks B. weasels C. masochists D. all of the above Here is the last challenge. Match the photographers names on the left with their given names on the right. Clicking the camera icons will show the answers. Answers are below if you don't have java. 1. Man Ray A. David Szymin 2. Nadar B. Otto Umbehr 3. Weegee C. Emmanuel Rudnitzky 4. Eadweard Muybridge D. Andrei Friedmann 5. Umbo E. Gyula Halász 6. David (Chim) Seymour F. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson 7. Robert Capa G. Edward James Muggeridge 8. Brassaï H. Gaspard Félix Tournachon 9. Lewis Carroll I. Arthur Fellig

PORTRAITS: to turn in

• Contact Sheet of 24 + pics of no more than 2 subjects
• 2 prints - at least one of which must be a double exposure!

favorite portraits...

Find 3 portraits you dig, you will need to answer 3 questions for each photo.

• What drew you to this photo?
• What was done compositionally to make it interesting?
• What is unique/interesting about this portrait?

You can find a random selection of interesting portraits here: http://www.portrait-photos.org/shuffle/

or you can use gettyimages or google images to search for an amazing portrait.

This is due at the end of the day Friday