AP Photo: Shutter Speed Assignment

The Shutter Speed and Manual Exposure Assignment

For this assignment you will need to have 5 Photos taken at with a Slow Shutter Speed, and 5 photos taken with a Fast Shutter Speed.   

All ten photos will need to be properly exposed to receive full credit for each photo!!! Use your Exposure Meter before taking each pic to ensure that you’re within + or – 1 range of acceptable exposure.

The 5 Slow Shutter Speed photos should express an action or motion from an animate, or inanimate subject or object through the "tracer" or "blur" effects that occur at slower shutter speeds.  

AT LEAST ONE OF YOUR 5 SLOW SHUTTER SPEED PHOTOS SHOULD INCORPORATE ILLUMINANT LIGHT WITHIN A DARK SETTING. 

(Example: Cars at night on a freeway with a cityscape in the background. The car lights look like a river of red and white light.)

The 5 Fast Shutter Speed photos should "freeze" time in the middle of an action.

(Example: Having someone jump in midair. Their body should have NO blurry or tracer effect at all. It should be perfectly frozen in time and properly exposed.

Below are some things to think about when making your shutter speed photos more interesting:

• Always hone the exposure on your F/Stop to produce the best lighting and contrast 
• Really try to push the camera to the slowest or fastest shutter speeds available in your current lighting environment. 
• Get creative with camera angles, distances, and focal lengths from subjects or objects
• Get creative with the "Stop and Go Ghosting" actions at slow shutter speeds
• Detail + Speed + Faster Shutter = Awesome! (Example: Hair or water in fast motion, taken with a fast shutter speed will always look visually interesting.)

You will be turning these in on a contact sheet with 2 columns and 5 rows, labeling and identifying all of the "Slow" and the "Fast" shutter speed photos. Save it as a JPEG and turn it in as _shutter

Monday November 9th is an in-class shooting day.

All 10 photos are due by the end of class on Monday, November 16th.