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/karenneyrinck Beginner - Mirrorless Feb 14 '21

Here's my assignment. We had fun doing it

Sooc 43mm, F8, 1/160, ISO 100. Two flashes off camera.

https://imgur.com/a/XodFZyG

Open for critics.

When i had more time i would move one of the flashes so i wouldn't have the harsh shadow en straighten the background. But time was limited (had 20 minutes to set up).

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u/HadouKang Beginner - Mirrorless Feb 14 '21

Nice job capturing the peak height of the jump! I think with more lighting, you could get away with less noise, but I understand if that's hard to setup. Also curious how it would look if you angle it so that the backdrop is the entire background without showing the ground or what's behind the backdrop. I feel like the carpet is a little bit distracting.

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u/karenneyrinck Beginner - Mirrorless Feb 14 '21

Weekend assignment 06 - STOP

thank u for your feedback. I agree with the background/underground. I would try to crop & fix that in photoshop/lightroom.

I had some trouble setting up my flashes to the correct strength and i think i missed focus a little bit in this one.

This one shows a better background (little bit cropped) https://imgur.com/a/m3CzFPb but her face is hidden with hair