“Shutter Control 2” – Action Photography: An Aesthetic Choice
Shoot a roll of film in which you are composing images with the use of the shutter control as an artistic element within each composition; the objective is to not only use the shutter appropriately, but to also control how it relates to the image to create the best composed & interesting images. When composing or considering the final effect for your images, set your shutter first and use your aperture to adjust the meter appropriately. Be sure to consider how much will be in focus on the negative before you take the shot—it may not work compositionally. Shutter should be used not only as a camera technique, but also as an intentional artistic consideration within your imagery.
Required: Log & Reflection Handouts
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- Stop-Action or Panned Images -- subject/focal point must have been obviously in motion and stopped completely in mid-action with a clearly considered background. However, in panned images, it does not matter of the background moves/blurs as long as the focal area is completely crisp.
- Blur-Action Images -- subject/focal point seems “ghosted” due to movement within the picture frame, while other areas of the image remain “solid.” Be sure that the ghosted element of the focal point is noticeable; this may require bracketing or repeated attempts at the same motion to capture just the right effect
- Low-Light Images or Night Exposure – these images will require the use of a tripod and some way to time and record your exposures, since the shutter could be open quite a long time (possibly longer than the internal meter can measure the light – beyond 1-2 seconds). Please note that night exposure and low light situations can create very thin negatives, so you will need to consider that fact and compensate when shooting. An easy starting point for creating more detail in low light negatives is to meter the highlight and the shadow areas of your image and average the two readings for your correct exposure time (ex HL = 8 @ 1/250th, Shadow = 8@ 1second, the average would be 8 @ 1/15th –- creating an image with an average depth of field and detail in both the HL and shadow areas of the negative).