Shutter Speed Blog Write Up

Shutter Speed

A shutter speed is what is used to determine the amount of time that the shutter is open on the camera and how much light is getting into the lens when the picture is taken.

A camera's shutter speed can be used to gain focus in fast moving object that is the focus of the photo, or it can be used in the opposite way for a dramatic effect in a picture. For example this could be used in media on a car advert, if the back end of the car is blurred it can give the audience a specifc view of the cars performance and reliability or even style.

 Slow shutter speeds can give a blurred effect within the photo that is taken and on the other hand, a faster shutter speed can give a more focused shot on a paricular object, giving an 'unnaturally frozen' effect.

This photo was taken at a rather slow shutter speed, in which a longer time was allowed to pass through the process of the shutter opening and closing, meaning that the model was able to be captured for a longer period of time, allowing the above 'blurred' effect to be created throughtout the image. This gives the impression that the model is running faster than he is in reality.

This is a similar effect, however the action is the only subject which is blurred, the rest of the setting is frozen, which is the result of  a fairly quicker shutter speed.

This shot has a faster shutter speed, and therefore the image is completely frozen and all the objects are static in the image. This is as a result of the shutter opening and closing very quickly, meaning the camera only captures a very short amount of time and therefore, only a very quick amount of the object in the frame, in this case a car being driven.

I wanted to create the effect in the first, top picture, however I only wanted the model to be blurred and not the background. This effect was created as a result of a very slow shutter speed in which there was lots of time for the camera to capture a ceratin amount of movement over a certain amount of time and therefore to solve the problem and only have the subject blurred I would probably have to set the camera to a slightly faster shutter speed to allow less movement to be captured but still enough for the model to be blurred, to give the effect that he was running extremly fast. The model was also quite far away from the shot and this takes the dramatic effect away a little, to solve this I could either re-take the picture at a closer distance or zoom in slightly to capture a closer shot.

I think my overall targets for this aspect of photography would to be concentrate on and experiment with different shutter speeds and to record them accurately to evaluate the different effects on each image and how they can be adjusted with each setting.