Week 5 Workshop

Fast Shutter Speed

For the fast shutter speed photo I took it on my iPhone. I got Fin and Ted to jump whilst I was using the burst setting on my phone by holding the button and dragging it to the left, I held it for a while to get a good amount of photos to choose from. It was an easy process and the photos I captured came out solid and crisp.

Slow Shutter Speed

This photo I took was of Arthur doing cartwheel. I put the setting on live photo and took the photo. Once I had the photo I clicked on where it says ‘Live photo’ and put the setting to ‘long exposure’ which turned out like this. The only issue is that you can barely see Arthur but it is because of the speed he was going but also because it isn’t a real setting for shutter speed so it isn’t the best to try and get the result you want by using a phone camera.

Research

Shutter speed is measured in seconds/fractions of a second. Slow shutter speed means that more light can be captured in the photo, this also will make the photo have motion blur in it which is good if you are looking to capture illustrative images and if you want the best result it is essential to have a tripod to have the surroundings stay as still as possible.

Fast shutter speed means the shutter is open for a shorter period of time capturing less light. This setting when taking an image means you will capture movement and it will freeze it instead of capturing motion blur, these types of images are good for journalistic purposes as they can tell the full story. Often used in areas for sports and wildlife.

The ISO setting affects the sensitivity of the camera to the light. Higher the ISO the more sensitive to light which captures a brighter photo. If you are situated in low light you can raise the ISO and it will have a clearer picture, however if you don’t have the quality or go too far you can end up making the phot grainy instead. If you’re in Ideal/bright light settings it could be beneficial to lower the ISO setting to remove any ‘noise’ coming from excess light to have a better quality image.