Abstract: Slow Shutter Speeds

These pictures are really interesting to take and look at. We turned off the lights and shone a torch making all sorts of shapes. the way to do it is to reduce the shutter speed to 8 seconds, and then it's just like recording a video. But keep your hands still.

This photo was the first try of this, I pressed
the shutter button too late. So this is why
my teacher is a ghost beside the actual model.

This one was better because you can't
see my teacher at all, and the tourch
shows a clean line and mane of light
around the models head.

 

This photo was probably the best, because
I kept the camera the stillest compared to the
other photos. The glow of the torch is really
good in this photo, even the floor reflects it.

This was an experiment by one of us students,
who was trying to write something on the board
but the torch wasn't small enough, and he took
too long to write it, he didn't have enough time to
disaper.

This was the second one I took, which isn't
any better than the first, but I was still struggling.
I was again to late pressing the shutter button.

 

 

Evaluation

I really enjoyed this lesson, because it was wacky, crazy, and we all had a good time. This technique is really fun to use, I really like the picture of Sophie in her little bubble. The bottom one, I wasn't quite ready with setting the camera up, and I also had a shiver go down my back and that's why that one looks particularly strange.

Health and Safety

This was pretty safe, we just had to be carefull to shine the torch into the models eyes, to prevent this you could direct the torch away from the models eyes or you could simply get them to close their eyes.