Week 4 - Shutter Priority

The task for this week was to shoot some pictures of running water using various shutter settings to see the effect this has.

Decided to go to the river Bollin near to where I live and thankfully the weather was really nice, dry and sunny.

Whilst changing the shutter settings it became very clear that the faster the shutter is, the more you have to compesate the light by changing aperature or ISO.  Whilst in Shutter Priority the camera (sony a230) doesnt allow you to change the F numbers so I had only the ISO to play with.  This resulted in having a larger ISO for the shorter shutter and the oppposite when using a longer shutter. 

I did notice that when using a longer shutter of 0.5 upwards there was simply to much light resulting in a very over exposed shot with no detail or image at all.  I'm thinkng a long shutter would be better in low light situations where you didnt want to use a larger ISO.

Shutter 1/400ISO 200, F/4.5

Shutter 1/400ISO 400, F/4.5

Shutter 1/30 ISO 100, F/6.3

Shutter 0.5 ISO 100, F/29

You can also see from the above F settings that as the shutter is open longer the aperature gets smaller (larger number, smaller hole).



Shutter 1/3200ISO 3200, F/4.5

Shutter 1/15 ISO 100, F/11

Shutter 0.5  ISO 100, F/32

Shutter 1/4000ISO 3200, F/14

Shutter 1/15ISO 400, F/32



Managed to capture this cheeky chappy and added some slight effects using lightroom which I have got my hands on today so need to play with it and work out exactly what you can use it for.

Shutter 1/400ISO 800, F/8.0

Not the best shot I know, really quite hard to get shots of moving subjects, especially when using a tripod, or maybe its just me!!!!