These first two pictures explain my entire project. They were taken at the same location at different times while it was raining. This first image is a 15 second long exposure of a large puddle in my backyard. Water is being pored into the puddle because of a gutter and it is also raining. This is one way I showed motion in this project through long exposures. About this individual picture I think its very interesting. Motion is not obvious in the shot but you can tell it is there. I like the banks on the side of the picture. Had I only showed the water like in the picture below it would not have been as interesting.
This is the second way I showed motion in this project. Still photos show motion because there is potential to do something. Something had to happen or MOVE after the image was taken. In this photo the viewer knows that the rain drops have to stir the water making it a still motion picture. I wish I had shone the banks in this picture instead of the majority being water. I still think the picture is nice and it fulfills its purpose of explaining my project.
This image took the most effort to shoot. I probably shot at least 100 pictures of this rock alone while getting this picture. The first difficulty was timing when I took the picture. I had to throw or drip water on this rock then take the picture at 1/1600 of a second. Sometimes I would not get any water in the shot. When I finally did get some good shots I liked I realized I did not focus on the rock properly and it ruined my entire set of images. I had to go back, focus very carefully then time my picture again. I finally got this one that I liked. This is one of my strongest still motion images and Im glad I finally got one of these that I liked.
I should have used this picture for get on your belly. This shot is leaning towards the cliche side of soccer photos but I could not leave it out of my project. I like the way my sisters foot is positioned after the shot and the ball looks good in its spot also. This picture just turned out good I like only having my sisters waist in the shot the only thing that is annoying is the background. The art building and the school garden get in the background. I was shooting on this field for two hours and I have learned that there really are not any good backgrounds on this soccer field. It does not swipe your attention all that much but I still wish it wasn't there.
This image is of thatcher. It is one of my still motion shots and it was scary to take it. I was afraid that thatcher would somehow hit me with the ball because I was right below him. I took some of the same pictures but this time I took them from the side and the picture was not near as good. Get on your belly really made me think about point of view even though I did not like the assignment much. All throughout this final project there are aspects of our previous assignments especially get on your belly.
Here is probably one of my least favorites from this assignment. It was tricky to stir the pasta sauce with the spoon long in the same place long enough so that the spoon would show up. The reason I don't like this picture much is because it is so uninteresting. The other pictures have some point of view or some story that make it interesting but this picture is quite bland to me. Were I to shoot this assignment again I would take this picture from a different angle or find one to replace it.
This image was tricky to time because I had to get the ball in the right position in the image. I only had to take it once though talk about good luck. I like this image mainly because I am behind the goal. Had I been in the goal (which I was for many of my images) the picture would not have looked so good. The net in the background gives you a sense of protection that my sister must keep the ball from touching that net. This is a strong still motion shot meaning it has the potential to move showing motion.
I like this image because of the focus. It made my final project because of the focus and I am very satisfied with it. From a perfectionists point of view I wish the water had been moving a bit faster especially since I am trying to show motion. It does not turn into the white fuzzy color that water turns to in long exposures. It was 15 seconds like my other exposures but the water was very slow. Despite this it still shows motion which is what I wanted.
I really like this image. To take it used a tripod and set a 15 second long exposure and then walked infront of the camera. That was the easy part. The difficult part was walking at just the right speed so that I showed motion in my image instead of a spooky see through ghost. This was much more difficult than I thought it would be and I had to practice this for at least 25 minutes before I got the hang of it. I put the house in the background because it made the picture more interesting. A story can be told from this image because the house in there. The other long exposures I took like this were not quite as interesting because I just had the side walk and road in the background. I love how the clouds look in top right hand corner especially. They make the picture look so much better in my opinion than if it would have just been clear skies. They creep over the mountains in a certain way that I really like. This goes on my favorite list for the pictures I have taken this year.
This is a gutter in my backyard pouring out water during a rain storm. Similar to one of the pictures above I really like the focus in this picture. The grass with the water drops once again served me well in my image. I like the water streaming down from the gutter and even better I like how it is off to the side. The picture would not be the same had it been in the middle. It would have given us a sure subject yes but I like it off to the side much better. I only had one true focusing problem this project and focusing is one of the things I struggle with. In this image and one of the ones above the focus turned out great.
This shot falls in between the lines of a long exposure and a still motion image. It has aspects of both. Capturing the water as it goes away from my foot is still motion but the picture itself being blurry starts to tilt towards a long exposure. I have thought about a picture like this before I started photo. I wanted to capture the split second that water splits apart when pressure is put onto it. I wish I would have shot this when it was much lighter because then I could have avoided the blurry factor. But in this image and with my project the blurry factor does not really matter. I still show motion in the image wether it is still or blurry and I show motion even more so with it being blurry. This was not a prize winner for me in this project but I still enjoy the picture.
This is a classic car long exposure shot. I got this picture idea from my brother and from what I know it is a commonly shot picture. I tried to frame it just right so that I did not have a distracting background. There were street lights on both sides of the road that I had to avoid and also a mail box. I could not avoid having the house in their but i am perfectly ok with it being there. It does not take that much attention away from the main subject. I also did not crop the house thank goodness we talked about that a couple of class periods earlier. Had it been cropped I think it would have served as a greater distraction. Nothing much other than the head lights showed up as the care came around the curve. This was fine with me because the image still showed motion like I wanted it to.
This was my favorite project by far. I enjoyed shooting this project more than the others partly because I had more freedom in choosing what to shoot. I was not as restricted which made the shooting alot easier for me. Overall this was my most succesful project and it was the most fun.
