Today we were practising taking photos using different alternative image making techniques including projection, movement with slow shutter speed as well as projecting images onto acetate and using different textures/materials. Slow shutter speeds can create a ghostly effect in photos when used in the right way, and i was most interested to see how i could try and create that effect in my own photos.
It was a lot harder than i thought it would be and at the start of the workshop i didn't really know what different shutter speeds would create what effect, and which shutter speed/ISO/camera settings i would need to create the effect i had in mind.
I took lots of practice photos using different shutter speed settings, just waving my phone in-front of the camera with the flash on, just to see what each photo turned out like:
The photos above are with shutter speeds anywhere from 1/10 of a second to 3 seconds. The photos aren't supposed to look good, but taking them did help with my understanding of the camera settings a lot more than i knew at the start of the day.
Using my knew found understanding of shutter speeds i practised taking photos using the BULB setting on the camera (which keeps the shutter open until someone manually closes it). I used this setting to write out a word with a torch, and because the shutter was open for around 10 seconds it managed to capture the whole word i wrote out in the air.
I did the same thing but with the light turned down a bit more and it turned out pretty cool:
In the photos above, because it captured me moving throughout the whole 10 seconds that the shutter was open, it gave me a ghost like effect that we liked. We wanted to try take photos where we used the same BULB setting and i moved my arms/head/body when the shutter was open so it could make me look blurry/ghost-like. However the photos didn't really turn out the way we wanted and pictured in our heads, probably due to the fact we didn't really know how to use the settings and light that well, it was still fun to experiment nevertheless:
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