Shutter speed 2 & 3

1. Shutter Speed and Movement
Movement Assignment
Parts 2 & 3

2. Learning to freeze or blur
movement in a controlled way.

3. Think about what you learnt
about shutter speed from the
exposure project…
Do you think this image was taken on a fast or slow shutter speed? Why?

4. Think about what
you learnt about
shutter speed from
the exposure
project…
Do you think this
image was taken on
a fast or slow shutter
speed? Why?

5. Photographic Assignment ‘Movement’
At the time of taking the first photographs the enemy of the photographer was
‘movement’!! Why? Well, because the exposure times for a photograph were very
slow in terms of minutes any movement of the subject would produce a BLUR!! This
would been seen as a fault in the photograph. One of the very first photographs by
Niepce took 8 hours to register in the camera.
It isn’t a coincidence that many of the first
photographic experiments used buildings or
objects as a subject because they were still.
In the photographs<right> by
Daguerre the only people
registered in a busy street
were a man having his shoes
cleaned,They were still for
long enough to be captured
The 8 hour exposure meant that shadows
were recorded on both sides of the image
The street would have been very busy.Why can’t we
see them?

6. Photographic Assignment ‘Movement’
The avoidance of blur or unsharpness in photographs led to technical
developments to reduce exposure times. Even then portrait sitters had to suffer
being clamped in position to avoid moving during the exposure.This would
account for the comparatively serious and immobile expressions in early portrait
photography

7. Photographic Assignment ‘Movement’
The creative use of ‘blur’. The photographers intention is to experiment with the
capacity of photographic equipment to capture the invisible appearance of
movement to the naked eye. This requires vision and technical skill.

9. Fast Shutter Speeds
(shutter speeds faster than 1/60th sec)

14. Slow Shutter Speeds
(shutter speeds slower than 1/60th sec)

22. Practise Task
• Take an image that freezes movement
= fast shutter speed (above 1/60)
• Take an image that shows blurred
movement
= Slower shutter speed (below 1/60)
• You will have to experiment with shutter
speeds to get the effect you desire.
15 mins
Time
limit

23. Movement Assignment – Part 2
• Create a Pinterest board showing a
collection of photographers work with a
strong element of movement.
• Include some well known photographers
such as:
Eadweard Muybridge
Alexy Titarenko
Henri Cartier-Bresson
• Choose a selection of images to analyse
and comment on in your website.
• DUE:
AO1 Develop ideas
through investigations
informed by contextual
and other sources
demonstrating
analytical and cultural
understanding.

24. Photographic Assignment ‘Movement’ Jump photographs / frozen movement
Elliott Erwitt

25. Photographic Assignment ‘Movement’ Show movement as a blur

26. Movement Assignment – Part 3
• Take a selection of images that demonstrate your
understanding of how to use shutter speed to freeze
movement.
• Take a selection of images that demonstrate your
understanding of how to use shutter speed to capture
blurred movement.
• DUE:
AO2 Refine ideas through
experimenting and selecting
appropriate resources, media,
materials, techniques and
processes.
AO3 Record ideas, observations
and insights relevant to
intentions in visual and/or other
forms.

27. Movement Assignment – Part 3
• Present your assignment on your website.
AO4 Present a personal, informed and
meaningful response demonstrating
analytical and critical understanding,
realising intentions and where appropriate,
making connections between visual,
written, oral or other elements.

28. AQA Assessment Objectives
AO1 Develop ideas through investigations informed by
contextual and other sources demonstrating analytical and
cultural understanding.
AO2 Refine ideas through experimenting and selecting
appropriate resources, media, materials, techniques and
processes.
AO3 Record ideas, observations and insights relevant to
intentions in visual and/or other forms.
AO4 Present a personal, informed and meaningful response
demonstrating analytical and critical understanding, realising
intentions and where appropriate, making connections between
visual, written, oral or other elements.

29. Photographic Assignment Extension - ‘Movement’ Splashes and Drips