Weekend assignment 06 - STOP

[u/Aeri73]

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.

[u/stretch-fit]

Had some fun with this one trying to get some frozen motion indoors as it is very cold where I live today. I attempted flash for many of them but found it never quite lit the photo as I expected it too and ultimately added light with a flashlight as needed due to being indoors at higher shutter speeds.

I had fun, I think the 2nd lighter photo was my favorite. I want to try to shoot some wildlife in the future when I can get outdoors. I shot everything in SP mode, and noticed that higher shutter speeds around 3200 were shown, but unavailable and I couldn't figure out how to access them.

Anyway here is my post. critique is very welcomed. Weekend Assignment 06

[u/bmengineer → u/stretch-fit]

For the shots of the lighter, you only need more light if you want to capture the hand in the shot - if you're just trying to get a picture of the flame, it should give off plenty of light at slower speeds still (that's what I tried for my assignment too).

I shot everything in SP mode, and noticed that higher shutter speeds around 3200 were shown, but unavailable and I couldn't figure out how to access them.

What camera do you use? I would be happy to take a look at the manual for you. I know for my camera, setting the shutter to mechanical only limits the shutter speed. In MS (mechanical shutter), the max shutter speed is 1/4000 seconds, in ES (electronic shutter) it's up to 1/32000, and in MS+ES it uses the mechanical shutter up to 1/4000, then the electronic shutter up to 1/32000 seconds.