Photography
Mr. Kulzer

Using Shutter Speed to Stop Motion

This assignment and the "Using Aperture to Control Depth of Field" assignment are both meant to teach students how settings on a 35 mm camera will influence the outcome of photographs. They both are done with Digital cameras. Students are shown photographs that illustrate how shutter speed influences, or contributes to, motion blur. Students are to use the digital cameras and set up situations where they can illustrate motion blurs in their photographs. Some may be able to hand in their raw photographs, while others may need to use Photoshop's motion blur filters to effectively convey the desired motion blurs. Using similar or identical photographs, students are to illustrate the motion blur that could happen with:
1. A slow shutter speed and a steady camera.
2. A slow shutter speed and a camera that is panned with the motion of the object.
3. A fast shutter speed that stops motion without blurring.
Evaluation:

3 points -- Accurate representation of shutter speed blurring effects.
3 points -- Accurate motion blurs (all parts that should be blurred are.)
1 point -- Use of class time.
3 points -- Followed directions.(Students: click here for specific directions)
10 points total