Experimental Characteristic Sheet

1. Light Writing
2. Panning
3. Freezing Motion

What we did: Our Photography Teacher Split Us into groups to try out the three techniques above. We then went out and did these experiments.

1. Light Writing 

Out of the images above I liked the people one as i thought it was the most effective and most creative. I also liked the star one as it came out not too bad at all and still was a good image. Im not to keen on the Christmas tree As although the shape is there it still is not a very decent shot of the light produced 

STRONG IMAGES 

The technique was called Streaks of light. To do the following above we set the aperture on our cameras to the setting F.16 and we also changed the ISO to 100. The shutter was first on 20 seconds but to do some of the images above e.g the person above, we had to set it on bulb, this means that the image will stay open until you let your finger off the button .

The effects that we as a group made were some wonderful shapes but we were also quite creative and I told them to try a person out as In my graphics class we were looking at a artist called Michael Bosanko  who is a light graffiti artist who does people like our one in his pictures. 

The good things about our pictures were they were time consumed effectively and some of them were very well done, also they have a very creative atmosphere to some of them and are diffrent to your everyday pictures you see today.

However we could of improved on this technique if we had a wider range of colours like red. green etc not just yellow and also a bigger area as it was hard to produce the shapes due to the size of the area we had to work in.

FINAL PRINTS :

To evaluate this technique I believe the whole concept of our objective to produce pictures with streaks of light went very effectively and we achieved that objective, I also believe that some of the pictures came out very well and look very interesting and makes you wonder how they did that when you look at them. However Most of the pictures did not turn out as well as I thought they would due to the space we had inside the room, if i was to do this again in the college i would ask the theatre if I could have a little time in there as it can go pitch black plus its extremely big so it would be the right amount of space to do funky and creative pictures.

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2. Panning

The contact sheets above are our pictures from using the process panning however they did not turn out as good as we expected.

The technique we were given was panning, to make this tecknique we went out onto the road behind the college and set the aperture to automatic and the ISO to 400. we also changed the shutter to 1/8 but we also realised that it was not good enough and should of been 1/16 instead. We also set the camera to program mode.

Overall the only thing I think went well was our determination to get a good panning image as most of the images were all blurred, our aim was to try and get a image that blurred the background but not the car moving, sadly we failed as we were not given the right settings from the other group as it would seem.

FINAL PRINTS 

These were the final prints as they were all not very good other than these too as you can sort of get the idea of what we were trying to do from these.

To evaluate panning we found that we need to have the shutter at 1/16 or more to get the perfect picture. we also need to think of where we are to go next time for the producing of the panning images as the road was very busy and it was extremely hard to just try and get one car in the picture as you can see with our outcomes, another thing that we need to improve on is making sure or double checking with our photography teacher that we have been given the right information from the other group on how to process this technique this will ensure that we have the perfect info to make the perfect picture for the technique. When it was our turn to tell the other group about this technique I was the speaker and i found it extremely hard to explain as we did not get the results we wanted whilst doing out own experimental pictures



3. Freeze Movement

These are the contact sheets for the technique of freezing movement.

STRONG PICTURES

To do this technique We went to the skate park and took pictures of skaters with a shutter speed of 1/1000 and the camera on program mode, we also changed the ISO to 400.

What went well was in all of these picture they are all decent quality and pretty good images. Our timing and accuracy of every shot was accurate and the angel of the shot.

What didant go so well was trying to capture fast objects like birds as they just flew off when you tried to get a shot of them.

FINAL PRINTS

To evaluate the Technique Freezing movement, we as a group found that the camera settings provided by the other group were not as good as they could of been. We changed the settings to improve our photos. we used a action shot which is when we capture the movement, this gave us as a group in all our photos a realistic feeling towards our photos. I think what we all liked was the way we came up with the idea of the skate park as the stunts pulled by the skaters and bmxs make our photos quite unique in a sense compared to the others, what we think for next time to improve is going straight to the skate park to do the photos as we were late for lesson when we did these.



TO CONCLUDE THE TECHNIQUES

To evaluate overall of the techniques my favourite technique was the light writing as it was extremely fun and we were pretty good at it. I also think if i was to do this again i would use much more coloured lights as it would really give a effect and i may use objects too so it shows more experimentation in my work as a photographer

I didan't like the panning technique as we did not do so well in it but if we got the right information i think it could of been much better having said that it was quite interesting to see the technique as i did like the look of the other groups pictures from the technique although ours failed I think I will try the technique again to see if i can comprehend the technique.

The freeze movement technique was interesting but not to my taste as I honestly found it quite simple and not complex enough for me to like it, it was a good way to experiment however as I now know an ideal place to go if i was going to do a freeze movement in my final piece.