PHOTOGRAPHY 52 CHALLENGE WEEKS 8 -10

                                  PHOTOGRAPHY 52 CHALLENGE  WEEKS 8-10

Photographing movement can be approached two different ways by using your shutter speed.  Shutter speed controls the look of your movement whether you want to freeze the action or blur the motion.  To freeze action you need a fast shutter speed and to blur the motion you use a slow shutter speed.  Let’s look at my photo below.  I wanted viewers to see the movement of me walking as it was happening.  To achieve this I had to use a slow shutter speed and my camera remote.  I sat my camera on the driveway and walked in front of it.  The result was my left leg being blurred due to movement while my right leg was in focus due to stillness.

                                                             WEEK 8 – MOVEMENT

I’ve always been a fan of black of white photos.  I think it’s the simplicity of them.  You have no colors distracting your attention away from the real focus of the photo.  And sometimes, depending on the subject and location, you can’t tell whether a black and white photo was taken in present time or fifty years ago.  My weekly prompt for week 9 was a black and white photo.  My niece was coloring in a brightly lit area of the room.  I chose to step back to photograph her for two reasons.  The first reason was because she was being framed by the posts on the left side of the photo and the walls on the right making for a nice composition.  And my second reason for stepping back was to capture the darkness created by the low lit area I was standing in.  The darkness helps to balance out the brightness in the photo and to reinforce my intentional focus, my niece.

                                                       WEEK 9 – BLACK AND WHITE

Self portraits are not my favorite thing to shoot : )  I’m usually the one behind the camera.  But for week 10 the prompt was to take a self portrait.  Shooting photos of yourself can be a bit tricky when using your digital camera.  The first thing you need is either a flat durable surface to rest your camera on or a tripod.  The second thing you need is either a self timer on your camera or a remote.  For my photo I used a tripod and my camera remote.  Once you are in a pose you like take several photos at a time so that you have more options and not constantly getting up to look at one photo at a time.

                                                              WEEK 10 – SELF PORTRAIT