WEEK 3

APERTURE AND SHUTTER

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This week we furthered our knowledge on aperture and paired it with shutter speed to create light trails.

With shutter speeds, large numbers equal high

speeds and small numbers equal

low speeds. For example, 1/15th of a second is a low speed and 1/1000th of a second is a very high speed. High shutter speeds stop action on moving objects but let in little light. Low shutter speeds will blur moving objects, but let in a lot of light. The following slide shows the example we did in class of a low shutter speed to make the moving torch, look blurred.

Shutter Speed: is a term used to discuss exposure time, effectively the length of time that a cameras shutter is open.

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We were then asked to try and take our own version of the moving torch, these are mine.

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a practical to use a slow shutter speed to create blurred imagery of our friends moving. My favourite that I took was of my friend where I have blurred her hair to make it look a lot longer than it actually is.

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PROFESSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY

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This week we learnt about professional photographers and their equipment. First we looked at modern and contemporary photographers, particularly those who photographed celebrities. Here are some of the examples we looked at:

Johnny Depp by Annie Liebovitz

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David La Chapelle's vision of Michael Jackson

Rihanna by Craig McDean

Mona Johannesson by Craig McDean

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This week, Mr Bennett also brought in a lot of his professional photography equipment, he taught us their uses, and showed them to us. The first thing he showed us was lighting.

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We then went outside to do a lighting practical using a speed light. It is an external flash system that you can put on top of your camerafor additional lighting in photos. For the practical weused the angling features onthe speed light. They allow you to angle it away from yoursubject so you can bounce the light off another surface and onto your subject. This isme with a camera with a speed light on top.

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The usage of the speed light is demonstrated here by Mr Bennett.

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Here are two examples that I took of a photograph with a white surface for the speed light to bounce off, and another one where the surface is gold.

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At the end of the lesson, Mr Bennett showed us how best to do a group photo. We went from this:

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To this:We did this by lining everyone in height order with

the tallest at the back and the shortest at the front. We then got everyone to stand atdifferent heights so you could see everyone in the photo. We also madesure they were all facingthe camera. This made ita much better photo where you can see the whole group.