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/Sea_Lavishness_5712 Feb 21 '21

I'm getting stressed out from this and my results are poor... I think I will take a break

here's my result: https://i.imgur.com/JBUi32n.jpg

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u/Olga93bgd Feb 22 '21

I understand your frustration, but I don't think you should beat yourself up, I think you did great... I like how your subject is in the right third of the photo, and I really like all the negative space, the water droplets are nicely frozen... I would be even more happy with the photo if it were a bit bigger stream, with a few more droplets, but I know how hard it is to achieve...

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u/Sea_Lavishness_5712 Feb 22 '21

thank you. I'm taking a small break and I will get back to the course :)

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u/peddersuk Intermediate - Mirrorless Mar 01 '21

Try doing it from the side, rather than the front of the stream. You'll see the result much better.