Skip to content

Intro to Photography Homework 2

Tonight I finished the second homework assignment for my intro to photography class. The assignment was composed of four parts:

  1. Three Slow Shutter Pictures: show motion through blur
  2. Three Fast Shutter Pictures: convey motion by freezing action
  3. One Pan Shot: capture an object in motion by blurring the background
  4. One Long Exposure: have fun with a really long shutter

I took over 600 pictures over the last week for this assignment. Burst mode (6.5 fps on the 40D) makes it easy to fill a memory card with images, especially when you’re trying to capture stop-action shots. Here is what I came up with:

  1. Three Slow Shutter:
    • IMG_2310: Subway Car Looking Out (28mm, 1/8 sec @ f/4.0 @ ISO 200)
    • IMG_2323: Subway Train Leaving Station (28mm, 1 sec @ f/16.0 @ ISO 200)
    • IMG_2758: Spinning Refrigerator Magnet (50mm, 1/4 sec @ f/3.2 @ ISO 100)
  2. Three Fast Shutter:
    • IMG_2284: Boiling Water (50mm, 1/500 sec @ f/1.4 @ ISO 1600)
    • IMG_2227: Stuyvesant Square Fountain Peak (53mm, 1/1000 sec @ f/4.5 @ ISO 400)
    • IMG_2566 and IMG_2601: Golf Club and Ball at Driving Range (105mm, 1/2000 sec @ f/5.6 @ ISO 400)
  3. One Pan Shot: IMG_2706: Biker (50mm, 1/15 sec @ f/1.8 @ ISO 800)
  4. One Long Exposure: IMG_2731: Playing Cards (50mm, 30 sec @ f/1.4 @ ISO 100
62

Update: This assignment is now posted in Gallery.