Movement - Work Diary

For my movement photoshoot, I decided to focus on using long exposures in order to capture lots of motion blur. To use these long exposures, I needed a very narrow aperture, so i stuck at f22 or narrower for the entirety of the shoot. This the depth of field was very wide in the images taken.

This is my favourite image from my movement photoshoot.

I like this partly because of the framing. I feel that the car in the image is positioned well; it looks like it fits with the rule of thirds composition rule, therefore, your attention is drawn towards it. The fact there are not any other cars apart from far off in the background also helps in drawing your attention to the car in the foreground. Additionally, I felt that there was the right amount of blurring on the moving car; I used an exposure of only a couple of seconds, so that the car would remain recognisable but will be blurred enough to create an effect of fast motion.

This is my least favourite photo from my movement.

While this does show motion, I feel that there is not a lot of interesting motion happening in this photo. I

also don't like how much the background has moved, which was due to camera shake. If I had used a shorter exposure, or put the camera on a tripod, there would be no camera shake, or at least a lot less. 

I also feel that the person who was waving the light could have tried to create a more recognisable shape, as that would draw the viewer to the image more than the shape that was drawn.

If I were to shoot movement again, I would bring a tripod when i'm going out to shoot, as that would have helped combat camera shake. I would also try and find more candid forms of motion, that were not directed to move for the picture e.g. people walking through the town, cycling and vehicles.

Movement - Straight Images

Movement - Contact Sheet

Movement - Image bank

  

   This photo was taken using a long exposure, therefore the vehicles in motion have been captured with lots of motion blur. In fact, they have vanished due to the length of the exposure and you can only see the lights.

 

This image is very similar to the one above; it has been taken using a long exposure, and is an image of vehicles in motion in which you can only see the lights from the vehicles. However, this image has been taken from a closer perspective , so we can only see one lane of traffic, with the motion blurred lights spanning across the whole picture.

 

The photo has been taken using a very fast exposure, therefore it creates a freeze frame effect instead of a motion blur effect. This image image has a narrow depth of field due to the wide aperture required to acheive a very fast shutter speed.

 

The image above is taken using a long exposure. The exposure makes the flowing water looks soft and almost like it is mist.

  This photo was taken using a fast exposure. The photographer that took this photograph used the exposure to capture water being poured over someone's head. The result is that you can see the water both coming down onto his head and over his face in one image.

Movement - Definition

Movement is what happens between being in one position/ place and another position/ place. You can move at any speed or in any way you want, and each speed or way or moving will effect how your movement is captured in an image. A fast shutter speed would capture lots of motion in a freeze frame style,  so it appears as if subject of the photo is frozen mid movement. However,  a slow shutter speed would capture lots of motion over a long period of time,  meaning the image will have lots of motion blur.