There are so many different
techniques and aspects to taking a photo, making it much more interesting than
a single point and shoot experience. By altering the shutter speed, aperture
and lighting the final outcome of a photograph can be far more interesting than
first imagined.
A shallow depth of
field is when you want to bring the foreground object into focus and blur the
background, making the object center or attention. A good way of achieving
shallow depth of field is to set the camera on its lowest f setting and snap a
picture and decide if you want increase the setting until you achieve your
desired image. The lens will be almost completely open. In the photo here, a girl sits in the background blurred, allowing the
shrub in the foreground to be clear making the photo very eye appealing in my
opinion, and the girl is left looking almost sad and leaving you wanting to to
know why shes there. By having the photographer down at the same level as the
scene make it more personal and relatable, if the photo was taken from an arial
view I don’t think it be be as impactfull.
close aperture such as an f/16, with a short focal length. This happened because half as much light is
being allowed into the camera, the lens will be smaller. In the photo you can see that the image as
a whole is clear, no blur or specific focal point be brought forward. The angle of the camera for this
shot is ideal. You can see into infinity which is great with how the sky looks, especially the clouds.
Even with the hay you can see the point of perspective change as they decrease in
size.
Stop motion is for when you want to
isolate a moving image so there is no blurring, the whole image will be clear.
In order to achieve this effect the shutter speed should be set to a high such
as 1/120 sec, you are allowing the most light in by setting the camera to f/2
and the lens is nearly completely open. In this photo it appears that a woman
is doing a back flip and the photographer has chosen to capture the stop
motion, isolating the woman in mid-air. You do not need blur I order to see
that she is clearly in motion. By having the shot taken straight on you can see
all the aspects of the photo, from her pointed toes, the falling skirt, then
the falling of her arms and hair. If the photo was taken from above all you
would see of the girl is her torso, not making it as interesting. When I look
at this photo the lighting catches my attention, the photographer probably
executed substitute reading. By using a special gray card of a very specific
shade, they take a test shot of that card to test the lighting and thus the
exposure.
Blur motion photography is allowing
the image to distort and blur in order to show that the object is in motion. A
photographer would want to slow their shutter speed down to shutter speed such
as a 1/8 sec. or even a 1/15 sec. and by selecting to have a smaller aperture of
f/16 or f/11 to minimize the amount of
light into the lens. “If your shutter speed is fast (eg 1/4000th of a second)
it’s not going to see much movement (unless the subject is moving mighty fast)
while if you select a longer shutter speed (eg 5 seconds) you don’t need your
subject to move very much at all before you start to see blur.” (Rouse D. DigitalPhotographySchool.com,
2007)
In this shot you
see a woman standing in front of a train, and she is in focus standing still,
while the fast moving train passes her by displaying it in motion. For this
particular photography the straight on approach is ideal in order to see that
the train is in fact a train. This looks like it is in an underground subway station
so exposure bracketing may be ideal to ensure proper expires takes place. “Exposure
bracketing means that you take two more pictures: one slightly under-exposed
(usually by dialing in a negative exposure compensation, say -1/3EV), and the
second one slightly over-exposed (usually by dialing in a positive exposure
compensation, say +1/3EV), again according to your camera's light meter.”
(photoexls.com 2010)
Panning is the effect you get when
a photo is part stop motion and blur motion. The actual moving subject is clear
and still, while the still background looks blurred and in motion. Here (my
photograph) the subject was caught walking and the camera followed him in motion,
so when he reached the same point with the camera he came into focus and
showing movement in the background. To help achieve this look slowing down the
shutter speed anywhere from 1/60 to 1/8 and it greatly helps to have a steady
hand. Some people may use a tripod and move the camera on top of it. The angle
of any panning shot should be interesting but at the same time at one where you
can move smoothly and easily.
With so many techniques to using a
camera, the final outcome to any photo can be endless as long as you are
willing to take the time to learn the features of your camera. With know how to
control the depth of field alone can leave you with an amazing photograph.
References
Photoxels, 2002-201
B. London & J. Stone (2012), A
Short Course in Digital Photography. Second Edition Pearson Education, Upper
Saddle River NJ
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