9 Shutter Assignment

What is Shutter Speed?
Shutter speed is ‘the amount of time that the shutter is open’.







The Assignment- Click Here: Shutter Speed Project Criteria You are to take a series of photographs where you capture movement with your camera by controlling the shutter. You are to try 6 different shutter speed techniques:

1. Blur movement.
2. Freeze frame movement.
3. Panning fast- blur background, clear movement.
4. Panning slow- blur background, blur movement.
5. Subject Clear, blur movement
6. Experiment

Make a contact sheet of 25 shutter photos (try several shots for each experiment) and label them. Post your best shutter images (one from each experiment) and label then and add to your blog.

For more information about shutter speeds, visit the Digital Photography School site.

2nd Place Composition Assignment

Alfred Eisenstadt

Next you are to take their own images in a place that your feel most at home/comfortable

• Photo 9 Using the 5 emphasis techniques to draw attention to the main idea in the composition. 
• Photo10 incorporating minimum of 5 breaking the rules of composition techniques to make your images more visually striking and eye catching.
• Focus on one technique per photo.
• Try at least 3 different frames per technique for a total of a minimum of 15 frames. 
• We will put all of the images together in a contact sheet. (9s I will show you how).
• Post your top five best (one of each technique) to your blog, identify the technique.

By Eisensta

Downloading Photos

Today we are going to download the photos that we took on our first class.

• You will need the camera, a USB cord, or card reader and then connect the camera to the computer.
• When it is connecting, the computer will communicate that it is connecting  with the camera. Don't have it import all photos on the camera. We are going to open the camera file and import only the photos that you took.
• Save them/drag them into your folder.
• Rename your photos of you and then give the camera to your team.
• Select your 1 favourite photo and save it to the share folder.
• Post your favourite to your blog.
• Comment why you chose this space and it is your favourite photo.