The playing with water thing.... well, it didn't work quite like it was supposed to. The reason for that is the nature of the little fountain that was used in the exercise. Regardless, we'll have a look to see what the outcome was.
First, if you're coming along with us in these exercises, you should have learned how to change the shutter speed in your camera. And if any of you did the exercises, please post your results in the comments. It would be great to share them with our viewers.
Here's what was produced by the shots of the fountain:
This shot was taken at a shutter speed of 1/60 of a second. A fairly fast shutter speed in an attempt to freeze motion. (A much faster speed could be taken outdoors in daylight. That was not possible today) Note, though the top two tiers of the waterfall in this photo. And now compare them with the second photo below.
And here's our slow shutter speed, 1.6 seconds. Just over 1 1/2 seconds. The objective was to show still motion in the fast speed, and a blurred motion in the slow speed. You can see some of that difference by comparing the top two tiers. Although the exercise didn't work quite as hoped there is some difference with some blurring on the top two tiers in this second photo. Saturday's travels will put me in front of a nice outdoor waterfall. Look for the pictures of the second trial on Saturday.
Fear not! The ceiling fan was still available for this exercise, and this is what came of those photos:
While in the shot above that was taken at 1/125 of a second (very fast shutter speed), it almost stopped the motion.
This should give a pretty good idea of what happens with different shutter speeds. One also must remember that the shorter time a shutter is open, less light gets into the camera, thus a darker picture, as you can well see above.
Tomorrow we'll do some exercises on ISO settings. Once again, check your camera's User's Manual to learn how to set your ISO settings. This will also be an interesting exercise. One thing to keep in mind - possibly back in the "olden days" of film photography, one would purchase film with maybe a 100 ASA for photographing outdoors. If somebody wanted to photograph indoors one would purchase 400 ASA film. I don't know why they changed the name from ASA to ISO, and I did some research on the internet and got nothing but a bunch of talk about standards organizations, then they said that's not where it came from. Well, let's just look at ISO tomorrow, and we'll get a better idea of what it's all about!
Meanwhile, until tomorrow, here's a little video about 9 Species of Amateur Photographers that I found humorous. Maybe it will give you a chuckle too!
Hours logged .75 Study and Post Process: .5
Total: 11.75 Hours Total: 10 Hours
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