Project 4 - shutter speeds

image 3697 1/500 sec

image 3698 1/200 sec

image 3699 1/100 sec

image 3700 1/60 sec

image 3701 1/50 sec

image 3702 1/40 sec

image 3703 1/30 sec

image 3704 1/20 sec

For this project I concentrated on the vertical motion of my son on a pogo stick.

Pogo-ing is a continual motion and I think it is a good way of seeing the effect of the use of different shutter speeds in freezing movement. I was not able to use a tripod so the final image has camera shake unfortunately.

3697 - taken at 1/500 sec and all movement is frozen and you can clearly see the detail in my son's face, shirt, hands etc

3698 - taken at 1/200 sec. Again the movement is frozen and the detail is clearly visible.

3699 - taken at 1/100 sec. In this image my son's face and expression are clear, but you can see movement particularly in his sleeves. His arms are also slightly blurred. This is showing that there are different rates of movement int eh action - his arms and torso are moving quicker than his head and the camera has not frozen the quicker movement at this shutter speed.

3700 - taken at 1/60 sec. From here on my son is becoming increasingly blurred in the photos

3701 - taken at 1/50 sec

3702 - taken at 1/40 sec

3703 - taken at 1/30 sec

3704 - taken at 1/20 sec. This image also has camera shake as I was shooting handheld.

My favourite image is 3700. The movement is obvious because of the blurring, but it is not so blurred that you can't make out the facial features and the pogo stick itself. However I do prefer the images I took for project 5 using the panning technique. To me they convey the sense of movement better and the ones at a slower shutter speed have more-easily identifiable detail in them, and the panning shows the blurring is deliberate and not a mistake

note - project completed 10 9 09