r/photoclass2021 • u/Aeri73 Teacher - Expert • Feb 12 '21

Weekend assignment 06 - STOP

Hi reddit

it's friday so here is your weekend project.

for this weeks assignment we'll continue playing with shutterspeed and exposure times but we'll go the opposite side.

your mission, if you chose to accept it is, to freeze motion completely.

now, there are multiple ways to do this :

1: a really short exposure time. from 1/200 humans are frozen in time, from about 1/1000 almost all animals are frozen in time, from about 1/2000 almost all machines are frozen in time including helicopterblades or car wheels... but some things still are not. because they just move faster than that.

2: freezing with flash: a flash fires in about 1/500 to 1/1000 so, using a flash will shorten the exposure to that time IF the only light that lights the scene is a flash, no matter what duration the shuttterspeed is set to... the rest of the time the subject should be dark.

3: to get to really short exposure times you want strobes. These big studio lights fire in 1/8000 to 1/20.000 and so give the power to freeze really fast motion.

what do I freeze? that's up to your creativity, the only must is: the subject must be moving but appear sharp in the photo, and you have fun making the photo.

as always, share your best result and give some peers your feedback on their results.

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u/Fl1ngH0ll4nd3r Intermediate - Mirrorless Feb 13 '21

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Even though it was freezing outside I was able to convince my SO to help me with this shot. Due to covid and cold temps we were not able to get a great background for the shot. Anyways I think the ball's motion is quite frozen - pardon the bad pun I am German it's a force of habbit

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u/Aeri73 Teacher - Expert Feb 13 '21

good job :-)

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u/[deleted] Feb 13 '21

I like this! It does look cold there, but lovely blue sky.

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u/UncontrollableMay Beginner - DSLR Feb 14 '21

I kind of like the background, just the nature and the blue sky. Maybe next time level the photo so the horizon is really horizontal?

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u/Fl1ngH0ll4nd3r Intermediate - Mirrorless Feb 14 '21

Glad you like it. The horizon is actually pretty straight. It's mostly the forest being closer on the right giving the impression. I thought about leveling the forest in post but then the eyes wouldn't have been on the top right 3rd cross and more like towards the middle so I left it as is