2nd Subject Motion blur conclusion after shoot N04

Motion Blur

My second subject I have chosen for this course is motion blur. This is a subject that I am particularly interested in which I find very interesteing

Again, I have found this to be another challenging subject,one that I think has tested my ability and creativity.

This subject is not just about clicking a shutter on a camera you really do have to think about a lot of variables to produce the end result

The main issue associated with this type of photography is shutter speeds and recording movement and motion in your frame as the movement occurs.To do this you really need to photograph your subject with a slow shutter speed. This speed can vary dependent on how much movement you want to show or emphasize in the image 

The majority of my images were recorded with shutter speeds ranging from 1/30th of a sec to 1or 2 seconds

Shown below are some of my test shots taken through the course. The shots below were taken one day in April when we organised a day trip to the coast in wales, a place called Newquay.

I asked my model to pose on a beach and to produce some movement. The shots were taken early in the afternoon and the weather was a very warn sunny day. The lighting conditions were far to bright,this created burn out in some of my shots. To remedy this condition I asked a  class collegeue to use a reflector to shade and deflect some of the light on my models face to even up the light balance and to reduce the intensity from the sun

The reflector I use is white on one side and black on the other. This is an ideal tool to produce fill in light using the white side and reduce/shade areas using the black side.

Shown here are my colleagues with my reflector in use

The shots below are just some examples of what I was trying to achieve on the day out to the coast

I used an F stop of F22 as I was experimenting keeping the whole shot in focus. I used a shutter speed of 1/30th to record some movement in the frame . I was shooting at 100 ISO

Shown here is a screen grab taken from the software Bridge. It shows some of my test shots and exif/meta data of the particular shots taken on the day out to the coast

This shot below shows another practice shot on the same day of using a slow shutter speed, in this case I used a lot slower shutter speed of 1/8 of a sec. This caused more motion blur in the shot which creates a nice froffy effect of the wave. I use my camera on a tripod to achieve the desired effect. Holding the camera with this slow shutter speed would have blurred the image completely.

I used my canon 400d and my canon 2.8 17mm-55mm wide angle zoom lens for this shot. The rocks were quite large but there arn't any objects in the photo to compare and show the actual scale and height of the rocks. I used my Velbon tripod for this shot,this is essentual when using slow shutter speeds otherwise the shot would be blurred. 

Shown below are some test shots which I have included in this screen grab. The shots were taken by myself at a friends house where our class converted the conservatory into a studio. I set up the college studio flash heads/lighting which I leased from the college. I used 2 flash heads both 500watt to illumminate my subect but I didnt't use the flash  of the lighting as this would have frozen the motion and not given me any slow blurr in the shot. Instead I used the modeling lights of the flash heads and turned up the light intensity to N08 to provide me with enought lighting to illuminate my subject.

There was additional lighting overhead shinng through a roof window which really helped to light my subject

I used a Canon 400d and a Canon 2.8 lens for this experiment.

I used my Velbon triopd for some of the shots. I also used my "Hahnel" radio remote shutter release devices to fire the camera shutter remotely. This enabled me to move freely around my model and help to set up the shots instead of standing behind the camera.

I asked my model to create some movement swinging her head from side to side while I selected different shutter speeds

Using a faster shutter speed would have frozen the motion ok but would not have recorded any motion blur. The shutter speed needs to be slow to enable the motion to be recorded in one frame over a slow period of time.

Ths shot below highlighted in blue in the Bridge software shows my exif data used to record the shot. I used a slowish shutter speed of 1/15th of a sec

Shown here below are some of my classmates setting up our temp studio in our friends conservatory. Shown in the shot is the lighting system,flash heads and reflectors loned from college that I used for some of my photography while on this course

Our model being photographed by one of my class mates

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/08/24/45-beautiful-motion-blur-photos/

Shown below are my final 10 images that I have chosen for this subject (Not complete)