Time: Activity 4

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Find a photograph where the photographer has used a slow shutter speed and describe the subject matter including the background.Discuss any technical difficulties the photographer may have encountered and how these might have been overcome.

• Discuss what happened to the depth of field and why.
• Discuss whether the image gives you the feeling of movement, stating the reasons for your conclusions.

Still Life - Siti Sorfiena Syasha

The picture above depicts a soccer game that was shot using a slow shutter speed. Only one player is clear while everyone else appears as blurred figures. One of the technical difficulties the photographer might have encountered was capturing the one player that isn't blurred. I'm going to guess that this obstacle wasn't to large and was overcome by asking the player to hold still and pose while he was not playing. The depth of field is not affected too much by the camera settings, but if looked at carefully, it gets slightly shallower as you begin to look further behind the player. The image gives me a feeling that there is movement in the picture, because of the players that appear blurry (because they are playing) and the one kid that appears clear (because he is standing still).

Time: Activity 3

Activity 3

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Take four images of a running or jumping figure using fast shutter speeds (faster than 1/250 second). Vary the direction of travel in relation to the camera and attempt to fill the frame with the figure. Examine the image for any movement blur and discuss the focusing technique used.

Take four images of the same moving subject using shutter speeds between 1/15 and 1/125 second. Pan the camera to follow the movement. The primary subject should again fill the frame. Discuss the visual effect of each image.

Time: Activity 2

Activity 2

Blog EntryFind an example of a photograph where the photographer has used a very fast shutter speed and describe the subject matter including the background. Discuss any technical difficulties the photographer may have encountered and how he or she may have overcome them.

• Discuss what happened to the depth of field and why.
• Discuss whether the image gives you the feeling of movement, stating the reasons for your conclusion.

Paint Bucket - from MegaPhotography.com

The photo above shows drops of paint splashing back up after falling back into the container. Since the drops were in motion while this picture was taken, the photographer needed to adjust his camera to overcome this very minor inconvenience. One of the more obvious adjustments made to the camera involved the F-Stop settings, since the depth of field is fairly shallow that means that the F-Stop setting was lowered. In the end, the photographer was able to accomplish beautiful stop motion at the slight cost of having a shallow depth of field. Job well done photographer.

Time: Activity 1

Activity 1

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Look at a Henri Cartier-Bresson photograph and discuss why you think that capturing the decisive moment has added to the picture’s quality.

Final Days of the Kuomintang- Henri Cartier-Bresson

According to the information that accompanied this image on magnumphotos.com, this is an image of a Chinese merchant, eating the last of his provisions. Due to the decisive moment in this picture, it looks like the man is sitting down and eating a meal he has just purchased from the store behind him, with the owner of said store looking at him. This is a much more pleasant take than reality, where the man's store has shut down and he is now eating the last of his provisions to reduce the weight he must carry with him everywhere around Beijing while searching for a new place to set up shop.