This week’s focus was on shutter speed and ISO and using the two elements to capture images in the moment to incredible detail with a fast shutter speed as well as stage artistic shots with a slow shutter speed.
To complete the task, I took inspiration for my project by putting myself in a sporting scenario and testing my knowledge and camera capabilities of shutter speed.
To get my photos, I headed down to training for Leeds Rhinos Under-18s Academy and used my Canon R6 MkII with 24-105mm lens. This was one of my first times shooting with the camera with the aim of focusing on balancing shutter speed and ISO, and managed to take the below shots both indoors in the gym and outdoors on the practise fields.
Having played around early with the settings, I quickly established that speeds of 1/500 and 1/640 were good at capturing images with little blur and let in a fair amount of light (see the example of Noah on the field running away from Shane). I also upped the shutter speed indoors to 1/1000 and managed to capture the shot of Declan throwing the ball, but you can see the light is darker.
To add to this, whilst with the Rhinos players, I attempted a slow shutter speed in the gym environment and managed to capture Oliver lifting the weights at 1/25 with his head visible in the mirror and still, whilst the weights and background have blurred with movement. I did this to help again with my project work later in the module as it is sport related.
Fast Shutter Speed
Slow Shutter Speed
Photographic Journalism 
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