Caputring Movement

Movement:

Motion Blur: It results when the image being recorded changes during the recording of a single exposure, either due to rapid movement or long exposure.

Freeze frame:
a single frame of film is reprinted in a continuous series, which when shown gives the effect of a still photograph. 

Ernst Haas:

Ernst Hass (1921-1986) was one of the most influential photographers of the 20th century and is considered by many as one of the pioneers of colour photography. He was born in Vienna in 1921 and took up photography after the war. His early work photographing returning Austrian prisoners of war brought him to the attention of the LIFE magazine. He declined the position as he valued his freedom in his photographs more than the monetary incentive. He joined other photographers and created associations with Henri Cartier-Bresson, Capa and Werner Bischof. 

In 1951 he moved to America and began experimenting with Kodachrome colour film and went on to become one of the premier colour photographers of the 1950's. In 1953 LIFE magazine published his 24-page colour photo essay on New York. In 1962 his exhibition was the first held at New York's Museum of Art. He was constantly travelling and photographing for LIFE, VOGUE and LOOK and authored four books during his life.  

Image Bank:

Ernst Hass' photos convey how busy we are in everyday life, he has used a longer exposure to blur the movement and distort the people's features showing how the world has become impersonal. He has probably done this as he wants people to interact with each other more instead of being a crowd of blurred faces.

 (AO:1.  You must ensure that several of the visual ideas/inspirations within the image bank are pursued. )

Own Photographs:

Images that need improvement:

0239.NEF:

This image was whited out as it was too bright outside and the exposure was 3" (seconds), a focal length of 18mm and an ISO of 100. The camera settings were on manual. By having an F stop of F20 it was still too bright outside and so almost all of the picture was blanked out by the light. Next time I would either return to where I was shooting on a darker day or use an f-stop of F32 to make the aperture as small as possible. 

0241.JPG:

I looked at my images as I took them and noticed that the first image didn't come out at all so I shortened the exposure to 0.8" and changed the F stop to F22 which is a smaller aperture but there was still too much light and it whited out most of the image again. If I was to take this image again I would use a higher F-stop to close the aperture as much as I could. 

0256.NEF:

I dislike this image because I was sitting down and the angle is too canted. I'm happy with the rest of the image and I might use this image in my final photos, I'll edit to see if changing the angle in photoshop improves the image. I also like how the man is only slightly blurred as I used a shutter speed of 1/15 sec leaving most of the man in focus. 

My best images:

DSC_0366.NEF 

I used a Nikon D1300 with a 18-55 mm lens. For this shot the camera was on manual settings and I lengthened the exposure to 0.6 seconds to blur the motion of people walking past. I was sitting down while I took these pictures and so didn't need a tripod. I wanted to keep the image as clear as possible so I kept the camera on ISO 100 and adjusted the F-stop accordingly, I ended up on F/22. I'm happy with the images that came out as the woman siting alone is stationary and so she is still and everything/ everyone is buzzing around her.

  DSC_0320.NEF

I also like this image as the man is almost completely blurred except from his green striped shirt. The camera was the same and the settings were similar to the shot before apart from the shutter speed that I changed to 0.5 of a second.

When I went out to go and take photos I looked at my research on Ernst Haas and his motion Blur photography. I used his ideas of blurring the subject of the image until it is only just recognisable, this made people think about photography rather than just looking at an image and stating weather they like it or not. 

AO3: Record ideas, observations and insights relevant to intentions, reflecting critically on work and progress.

What I wanted to do to for blur was to record people, as we are constantly moving. I sat in a coffee shop, in the town centre and took photos of people through a window as they walked around outside. This was the best way I could think of to capture the natural movement of people as they went about their daily lives. 

As for the images that didn't come out as I thought they would, it was mainly due to human error as I didn't have a tripod but there is very few shots that I would have changed. The only thing that I would have changed was the timings as I wanted more people in the shot to increase the motion blur. I only fluctuated slightly with the shutter speeds from 0.5/0.6 to increase or decrease the motion blur. 

AO2: Explore and select appropriate resources, media, materials, techniques and processes, reviewing and refining ideas as work develops.

To improve my images I used Photoshop and used curves to change the tones:

Here is the final image:

I edited my other images in the same way.

The screens shot I took shows how I changed my images. 


AO1: Develop ideas through sustained and focused investigations informed by contextual and other sources, demonstrating analytical and critical understanding.

I utilised my research into Ernst Haas in blurring people and shapes but allowing them to remain recognisable. I believe that my set of images captures motion blur.