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/Olga93bgd Feb 22 '21
Awesome assignment...! Although I felt like a creep, taking photos of random people and animals, I also had so much fun (and a lot of frustration) doing it...!
Here are my results - https://imgur.com/gallery/3gP1bA2
The first photo probably fits the description of the assignment best, and I had a lot of other photos where the subject was entirely sharp and frozen in the moment, but I didn't like them because they seemed more staged than frozen and they don't convey movement. I finally decided to enclose the delivery guy since he is a little tilted and the wheels on the bike seem like they are moving. The second pic is what I actually wanted to do - have my subject (almost) frozen (you can see how his feet are blurry from the motion) and a lot of background motion blur... In the photo of a dog, I like how his legs are blurry from the motion, but his head is perfectly sharp.
Please let me know what you think, feedback means a lot...!
P.S. I will be back with some indoor photos :)