Shutter Speed Work :P

This lesson with Tom was spent working on shutter speeds, painting with light and catching the moment.

Here we were painting with light using out mobile phones. My camera had a shutter speed of 8 seconds on it- so we had time to catch the light from the phones and create some interesting patterns.
Shutter speed is how long the shutter on a camera stays open. The longer the shutter speed the more light it lets in. With this shutter speed- there was time for movement which resulted in the patterns from the mobile phones. It can make a shot darker or lighter. 

By changing the exposure we were able to show or black out the background.  I honestly think that the pictures look a lot better without the background showing, it makes the light more intense. 

Here we were working on catching the moment, and our shutter speed was on 400ths of a second. making the pictures clear and still.

You'd used a fast shutter speed for pictures like sports shots to cat the moment. this picture was probably taken at about 500ths of a second.

Slow shutter speeds would be used to create more a artistic feel to a picture. This picture was probably taken with a 10-20 second shutter speed.