Francesca Woodman
Francesca Woodman used a slow shutter speed to create motion blur. This created an effect where there's a sharp background but a blurred figure which emphasises and shows the direction and speed of motion in the photograph.
The blur creates a ghostly effect of movement and makes the figure stand out to the background.
Alan Sailer
Alan Sailer uses an extremely fast flash (1 micro-second) and a fast shutter speed to capture movement as a sharp, still image. This is just an example of fast shutter speed in photography but I feel like using flash to capture the movement could ruin the lighting and the look of the image. This shows how light is essential for high shutter speeds
Denis Darzacq
Denis Darzacq uses a fast shutter speed while jumping or falling to make it seem like the figure is suspended in air while carrying on with normal activities.
Edward Horsford
Edward Horsford takes fast shutter speeds of water balloons being popped to create the effect that the water droplets are suspended in air. The dramatic lighting and colours
Dennis Roussel
Dennis Roussel takes photos of ink droplets in water. This image shows a collection of photos from when the ink entered the water to after it had dispersed.
Levitation
Yowa Yowa is a photographer who takes photos of her self jumping and in mid-air. She usually does this while performing everyday activities and tries to make herself look natural.
This is an attempt to make photos similar to Yowa Yowa's style:
We used a fast shutter speed so there was no blur and it creates the effect that you're frozen in air. The fast shutter speed made the photo quite dark, meaning we needed a small f/stop and a medium-high ISO number. When taking levitation images it's important to have a fast shutter speed so there's no blur and a high ISO or small f/stop a lot of light to compensate for the high shutter speed.
Zoom Blur
One photographer who uses zoom blur is called Dominic Harris. He uses zoom blur to create a sense of movement.
Zoom blur creates an effect of movement to stationary objects. To do zoom blur, you would use a slow shutter speed and while the photo is being taken, you would change the focal length creating a zoom effect. Whatever is in the centre of the focus tends to be sharper than the side of the photos. We were indoors where there was little light meaning we could use long shutter speeds without needing to change the aperture of ISO number that much. To make sure the zoom blur wasn't jagged we put the camera on a tripod so there was no camera shake and we got a clean, straight blur.
When you use flash the object effected by the flash remains sharp and everything not captured by the flash is blurred out. This means the subject can be in focus.
Movement of a figure
To create the effect the subject moved part of their body while the shutter was open. This created an effect where part of the subject was blurred out and the other half is in focus. We had to use a long shutter speed to capture the motion blur and to compensate for it, we used a large f/stop and a low ISO number. To keep the camera still during the photo (it's difficult to hold a camera still for a shutter speed slower than 1/20 and we were using around 1/2) we used a tripod s the background would remain sharp while the figure was blurred.
A problem with some of these photos is that it was too bright outside so it was overexposed.
Perhaps you could take more of these images and apply what you have understood from looking closely at the woodman images.
New photos are below in a slide show.
New photos are below in a slide show.
Francesca Woodman analysis
In this photo, you can see a figure (Francesca Woodman) crouching in a grungy-looking blank room. On the right there's a window letting light into the photo. The figure is blurred in motion, lunging towards the window. Francesca Woodman intended to create surreal, ghostly images. She did by using a long shutter speed to blur out part of herself. She wanted to create a feeling of dis-attachment from the world and the background around the subject. This also reveals to the viewer Woodman's disturbing psychological state which led to her suicide in 1981. Her psychological state is further shown by the composition and the motion, which makes it seem like Woodman is lunging towards the window. Francesca Woodman has used long exposure and lighting manipulations in creating this work thus creating a ghostly, dis-attached effect. Another interpretation of the blurry subject could show how Woodman encrypts her subjects to show the viewer that photographs flatten and distort, never offering the whole truth about a subject.
Long Exposure Shots
To create these photos of light trails, we used a long shutter speed and shone a torch at the camera. To compensate for the long shutter speed we used a low ISO number and a medium/high aperture. We used a tripod since when using long shutter speeds, everything would be blurred since you can't hold a camera still for very long. We took these photos at night so we could use longer shutter speeds and so the floating lights would stand out more.
Our biggest problems with these photos was to make sure the camera wasn't moved when you press the button, keeping the light on frame and trying to make the person holding the light invisible. I think ways to do this would be to make sure the tripod was tight, the camera was pointing at a better angle and for the person holding the light to move faster.
We also took photos of traffic using a long shutter speed.
Most of the problems were due to too many lights/cars and the camera moving. To stop the camera moving we should've used a delay so the pressing of the button doesn't shake the photo.
Gif: Travelling without moving
In this we make a stop-motion gif on a person moving without movement. This is done by someone taking a photo then the person moving and taking another photo.
Idea 1: Moves down the walkway and disappears behind the corner. Then reverse back to original position.
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Idea 2: Moves down the stairs then reverses back up.
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Idea 3: Moves out of the door then reverses back to position.
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Resilience
We have taken these animated gif photos with light painting to show resilience. We set up a tripod to stabilise the photos so there isn't a lot of camera shake. Then we used a long shutter speed and shined a torch at the camera to create a light trail. We then used a high f/stop and a low ISO to compensate and make sure it isn't too bright. I think it would be better if we used more images to make the animation smoother and give it more detail.
Explain the process, www and ebi
Explain the process, www and ebi
Ghost Picture
I edited a picture of a dark corridor and a picture of Ollie to make him seem ghostly. I started by darkening the corridor and the picture of him and then I masked the background of Ollie. After that, I put them together, made him transparent and used motion blur.