Shutter Speed Assignment

You can give the feeling of motion in a picture by making the motion blurred or freeze it in mid-motion. The slower the shutter speed is the more motion blur you will get in your picture and the faster the shutter speed is the more sharp the action photo will be. You can also pan a photograph by following the moving object and allowing the background to blur while the subject is in motion. I mostly tried panning for this project, it's difficult but when executed correctly the outcome is beautiful. I got a lot of cool motion blur for this assignment too. Enjoy!

Still Life Assignment

Depth of field plays a big part in how the photo is portrayed. With a lower depth of field the viewer sees only the subject in focus and is forced to concentrate on that object, while in a high depth of field the viewer can see the whole picture in focus, and has many things to focus on. To control depth of field you have to choose your distance from the subject wisely, and decide what you want to focus on. For my still life assignment a lower depth of field worked best because I mostly focused on one object and not a whole scene. If I had set up a whole scene of objects a larger depth of field would have been better.