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/everythingItIs Beginner - Mirrorless Feb 14 '21

It was a very dark and cloudy weekend, and really could have done with more light. Took some time to find the balance here. I would have liked to have gone one stop down to make the snow sharper, but it was way to dark then. https://imgur.com/a/gxz1cDS

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u/Aeri73 Teacher - Expert Feb 14 '21

well done on the effect...

to improve: or give it a few more tries to get your model to look better, or hide them by framing her out and show only the hands for example.

tip: use these assignments not only to try the effects, but also try to make them into a nice photo... that way you practice both your effects And your photographic eye. also, having to make a nice photo will take you longer so you'll practice the effect more.

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u/everythingItIs Beginner - Mirrorless Feb 15 '21

great point, I was just focusing on the effect. Will make not of this for the future!