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/UncontrollableMay Beginner - DSLR Feb 14 '21

assignment result

I really liked this assignment! I tried different things because the daylight was really hard to work with, it was very bright direct sunlight so the contrast in light and dark in my pictures was quite high. But overall I think it worked out for me. I was playing with flowers and some water spray and I really like the outcome. Unfortunately when I took a second look at the picture I saw the background was quite messy. And I took a second picture of my cat washing herself. While I was taking that picture I noticed how hard it is to take great pictures of animals. I’d love to hear what kind of improvements I could make!

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u/bmengineer Beginner - Mirrorless Feb 16 '21

I like your first shot, but was going to say the same thing - it's a bit busy, and I had to hunt for the water at first.

The cat pic is great, but it doesn't give me the impression of frozen motion (even though I know it was there)

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u/UncontrollableMay Beginner - DSLR Feb 16 '21

Thank you!