Month: September 2017

These photos are examples of light graffiti created by using a slow shutter speed of a few seconds rather than milliseconds. To create the images we had to make a outline of an object with a light source to have it appear on camera. To have time to create the image, we had a slow shutter speed with the camera set on a tripod to create a clear image. I enjoyed how the group worked together to make a word or design and the different ideas that came along with it.

I learned that when I’m working with a slow shutter speed I need to be patient with my work and when it comes to the final photo. I loved the way the camera caught the light the way it flowed with the picture just seemed magical. I learned that if you hold the light side ways it gives the illusion of something as if it was written in water (that’s how it seemed to me at least). The only frustrating thing is when the light just seemed all cluttered up in one area on the camera when we were trying to get it across the entire camera screen.

                The assignment was to take pictures of the same object but with different depths of fields. By doing so my partner and I had to change the aperture by increasing it with every shot. Also by decreasing the shutter speed with every shot. When we increased the aperture we get a more clear image of the background. By slowing down the shutter speed we got anything that was in the background to seem blurry if it was moving.

My partner and I had some trouble trying to get the back ground to appear clear, instead of clear we got a change in the brightness. With every setting change the photo seemed darker. It was also difficult to get a clear background because students kept coming back and fourth, creating movement, which with a low shutter speed appears blurry on camera.