WIP #6 Shutter speed

[jbr13]

Ok, this week is relatively simple. You are just going to take pictures at different shutter speeds.

Try to use one subject with a good bit of light source. Put the camera is Shutter Priority if you have that mode. Hand hold your camera, and start at a shutter speed of 1/8th of a second and progress as follows. 1/8, 1/15, 1/30, 1/60, 1/125, 1/250, 1/500, 1/1000. Now if you have a tripod try it again with the camera on the tripod, and if you have a remote of release, try it with that as well.

Once your done, download the pictures to your computer and look through them. What do you notice?

You camera will change the aperture as you change shutter speeds to try to give you the best exposure. Some may be to dark or bright depending on your light source. Look at the focus of your pictures, how does it change?

Once you have finished looking at your pictures, tell me what you have learned, and post your best and worst. Everyone can learn something different, there are many thing that we can learn in this exercise.

When shooting pictures you have to be ready to learn from your mistakes and accomplishments!

 

[jbr13]

For those who do not have the Shutter Priority Mode, I a sorry you won't be able to do that assignment.

Don't feel left out though, I have on for you guys too.........


Get some practice taking pictures of a pet! Here is the tricky part though, I want you to try to get a couple different pictures using the modes you do have on your Point and Shoot! Try Auto, Sports, Portrait, and the other modes. Let me know what you learn from that and post your best and worst picture. Include what mode they were in if you can as well.


J

 

[LusbyMom]

I got a tripod today

 

[forceofnature]

Never got out for this o well too dark now.

 

[wch]

Never got out for this o well too dark now.

Never to dark most cameras will go to 15 sec in shutter priority mode, My D40 goes to 30 sec which will take a pretty good picture of the night sky or a street light lit drive way, give me a few minutes to get the pictures online and I'll show an example

 

[wch]

Here is a link to one of the pictures I took at 6:30 pm from my backporch. 18mm f4 at 20 seconds. focusing isn't easy and yes it was tripod mounted and remote activated


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[MrX]

Here is a link to one of the pictures I took at 6:30 pm from my backporch. 18mm f4 at 20 seconds. focusing isn't easy and yes it was tripod mounted and remote activated


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Try adjusting your white balance to match the type of lighting, it will help with the color cast in your image.

 

[jbr13]

Never to dark most cameras will go to 15 sec in shutter priority mode, My D40 goes to 30 sec which will take a pretty good picture of the night sky or a street light lit drive way, give me a few minutes to get the pictures online and I'll show an example

You may want to take another look at the exercise. Kinda needed to be done during the daytime. Not going to be able to progress up through the shutter speeds at night.


J

 

[wch]

Try adjusting your white balance to match the type of lighting, it will help with the color cast in your image.

I tried that, This one was on auto WB, couldn't find a match for sodium vapor street light, incandescent makes a wild bright blue hue. I might try tungsten next time, Kind of awkward with 3 different types of light sources.

 

[LusbyMom]

I didn't get a chance to do this this weekend... but plan to do it sometime this week.

 

[wch]

You may want to take another look at the exercise. Kinda needed to be done during the daytime. Not going to be able to progress up through the shutter speeds at night.


J

Sorry, not trying to jump ahead, just making a point about a previous post, (Never got out for this o well too dark now.)(street lights, front porch lights and flashlights make excellent night time targets for the exercise)

 

[MrX]

I tried that, This one was on auto WB, couldn't find a match for sodium vapor street light, incandescent makes a wild bright blue hue. I might try tungsten next time, Kind of awkward with 3 different types of light sources.

Yeah, that could prove to be quite a challenge.

 

[jbr13]

I don't think they could get enough light from a street light to be able to get shutter speed up to 1/1000th and be able to see how the focus in that image is.

 

[wch]

Then here is my worst in this type of exercise of a streetlight at 1/4000 of a second

Nikon D40
2008/11/23 22:23:40.8
JPEG (8-bit) Fine
Image Size: 400 x 286
Color
Lens: 55-200mm F/4-5.6 G
Focal Length: 175mm
Exposure Mode: Shutter Priority
Metering Mode: Spot
1/4000 sec - F/5.6
Exposure Comp.: +1.0 EV
Sensitivity: ISO 800
Optimize Image: Vivid
White Balance: Auto
AF Mode: AF-C
Flash Sync Mode:
Flash Mode:
Auto Flash Comp:
Color Mode: Mode IIIa (sRGB)
Tone Comp.: Normal
Hue Adjustment: 0°
Saturation: Enhanced
Sharpening: Medium high
Image Comment:
Long Exposure NR: Off
VR Control: Off
High ISO NR: Off

 

[jbr13]

Did anyone get a chance this weekend to try this exercise?




J

 

[CableChick]

Did anyone get a chance this weekend to try this exercise?




J

I was out of town!

 

[chipper101]

Did anyone get a chance this weekend to try this exercise?




J

Been out of commission for a couple weeks, but I am hoping to get out and get caught up on some of these exercises. Really appreciate all that you are doing to further our knowledge of photography. Thank you.

 

[forceofnature]

How about we make a a TIP Tuesday in Pictures day activity LOL. If I get out of work at a reasonable how I can do this.

 

[jbr13]

By all means, go for it! I have said before, these can be done at any time. I post them for the weekends, because that is when most people will be able to do them.

As long as we have some perticipation I will keep trying to do one of these each weekend. I know we will have some slow weekends and some weekend that many join in.

 

[Tomcat]

Jason, I may not participate every week, but I appreciate your postings. Makes me think back over things my dad taught me years ago. Back then (using film) I think you had to be more aware of settings etc. Now with digital I'll take numerous shots, different settings etc, then pick the best one to work from. Thanks for your work putting these projects together.