Shutter Speed

Shutter Speeds

Shutter speeds allow you to take images of an object or person that is moving quickly. This means that you can take the picture without any blurring. There are two types of shutter speed available for me to use, these are fast and slow shutter speed. You would use these for two different images. You would use a fast shutter speed to take images of something that is moving very fast so that you can capture the image efficiently. You would use a slow shutter speed to take an image of something that is not moving as fast because this means that you can efficiently take this image.

For the image below, i set my camera to the setting 1/500. I think that the quality of this image is the best of all the images I took. I think the shutter speed worked very well and the photo was took at the perfect moment. I believe that the image is very well lit aswell and so this adds to the high quality of the image. However, I do believe that there are some minor improvements that I could make. For example, I could have got closer to the target so that the main focus was on her and there was not as much scenery around the target. When taking the pictures in the future I will take this into consideration and make sure I am close enough to the target.

For the next image, seen below, I set my camera to the setting 1/125. I think that this image is better than some of the others I have taken however, I do not think that it is of a very high quality. This is because the target is positioned very well and so she is not doing anything in particular, I think this could have been improved by telling the target exactly what to do after she had thrown the leaves into the air. This then leads me on to my next improvement, I think that there could have been more leaves used in this image to make it more exciting and obvious what the point of this image was. However, I do think there are some good points about the image. I think that it is well lit and also, I think the scenery behind the target works with the image. I think the park behind it adds to the nature feel of the image. In the future, I would try to improve my images by thinking about exactly what I am trying to do when taking the picture and discuss this with my target so that they know that they are supposed to be doing in the image.

For the image below, I used the camera setting 1/4000. I think that this image is of a relatively high quality, but there could be some improvements made to it. First I will look at the good aspects of the image. I think that it is well lit and you can clearly see what the target is in the image. In addition, the target is placed in the centre of the image which I did find difficult when taking the faster moving images. However, the target is slightly blurred and so this could be improved upon by using the automatic focus code, I would have to do this as opposed to the manual focus because of the movement and I would not have the time to focus and take the image before the car drives past. In addition, I believe this image would have been better if the road was clear and the target was the only car on the road. This is because the audience's attention could go to the cars behind, instead of the target. In the future, I will take more time when focusing my image and look at the surroundings of my image before taking the image to ensure there are no distractions from my target.

Form the image I took below, I used the camera setting 1/250. I do not think that the image below is of a very good quality. This is due to multiple reasons. Firstly, the lighting is not very good and so this affects the quality a great deal. I can improve this by either finding places with better lighting to take the images or I could try to adjust the shutter speed setting to try and get more light into the camera. Also. the image is slightly blurred due to myself not taking enough time to manually focus the image and ensure that it was of a good quality. In order to improve this, I need to ensure that I am taking the time to manually adjust the focus so that the images I take are all of a good quality and not blurry. However, I do beleive that if I have done the above when taking the image, it would have been very successfull because I do think that the 'running' effect I was trying to do in this image worked very well and the actual target was not blurry it was the entire image, showing that it would have worked well if I had changed the focus of the image.

For the image below, I used the camera setting 4 seconds. I do think that this image worked very well because you can clearly see the face that has been created using a torch. I think that creating this worked really well. However, I do think that the image could have been improved if the face had been more central as this would have make it look more proffessional. To improve this I could ensure that the image I am taking is in the centre so that the target is central. In the future, this is also something that I can always check when taking images because it is best to make sure that the target is going to be the main focus of the image.

Overall, the main targets that I have noticed are making sure the image is in focus, take not of the the scenery around the target and make sure the target is in the centre of the image. In the future, these are some things that I will have to consider and take note of when taking images to ensure that they are of the highest standard and the best possible quality.