WEEK 2 SHUTTER RESEARCH/CAMERA USE
Artist Research
What is shutter speed?
Having very little knowledge of what a shutter speed is we had a group discussion to describe the differences of slow shutter speed and fast shutter speed.On my DSLR on manual mode it is TV in which i was so confused what TV stand for after having the groups discussions i learnt it stands for Time Value lol.I did my own research online to find the simplest meaning and understanding of how the shutter speed works in a camera.Shutter speed is a measurement of time that a camera's shutter is open—allowing light, usually after it has passed through a lens and through the aperture diaphragm, to strike a photosensitive surface, like film or a digital sensor.
The faster the shutter speed, the shorter the time the image sensor is exposed to light; the slower the shutter speed, the longer the time the image sensor is exposed to light. If you are photographing a subject that is in motion, you will get different effects at different shutter speeds.
Artist 1
Francesca Stern Woodman
Francesca Stern Woodman (April 3, 1958 – January 19, 1981) was an American photographer.Taken between 1972 and 1981, Woodman’s photographs are almost all black-and-white and have a general softness of focus not often seen these days. Her photographs feature either herself or female models. Many of her photographs show young women who are nude, blurred (due to movement and long exposure times), merging with their surroundings, or whose faces are obscured.She began shooting photographs at the age of thirteen, using a Yashica twin lens reflex camera given to her by her father a serious camera for somebody that age, a workhorse of a camera, a tool favored by artists. As shown below. Online Reference utata tribal photography. 2006. SUNDAY SALON WITH GREG FALLIS Francesca Woodman.
This image titled House #3 with her signature style in black and white would be taken with a slow to medium shutter speed.The main focus is on her but is a motion blur maybe due to her the subject moving to the right leaning against the wall and the rest of the surrounding is frozen and in clear details with cracked walls and broken glass or wood scattered on the floor I can also see a spillage on the wooden floor.I would guess the shutter speed would be 1/60 sec. She would have used a tripod to capture this. Photographed indoor the ISO would have set around 400 - 800 without the use of flash because of the direct sunlight from the windows.With the black and white image and the title House #3 I feel she is trapped in her space but has no escape.
Fast Shutter Speed
This photo was taken with a fast shutter speed.Everything in this image frozen and detailed.With her face slanted to her left side facing the camera and leaning against the wall crouching down on the floor.The images reflect torture and rebellion, a dance, a battle, a song, and the way she communicates with the world. Her soul worships the tempest and that is how she relates and surrenders to the universe, both sinking and flying, hiding with her eyes closed, resting in the corner of a room or behind a veil, recovering from the intensity of existence. An artist that made her mark with every step, choosing to carve not to just tread, destroyed and alive – the more destroyed, the more alive – drawing with light the map of her own flood. Shutter speed would have been 1/200 because of the sharp image and ISO would be 800 because its shot indoor.
Artist 2
Fast shutter speed
This is photographed in slow shutter.Eveything is blurred due to motion blur.Darren Glass artistc signature in using pinhole cameras.
Reference:
http://www.mcnamara.co.nz/glass.htm
https://thebflatsheep.wordpress.com/2014/11/04/the-fall-of-a-storm-francesca-woodman-at-victoria-miro-mayfair/
[ONLINE] Available at: http://www.utata.org/sundaysalon/francesca-woodman/. [Accessed 07 March 16].
Book
14 New Zealand photographers : Darren Glass
Author: John B Turner; PhotoForum Inc.
Publisher: Auckland, N.Z. : PhotoForum, 2008.
Series: PhotoForum, 76.
Women Photographers: From Julia Margaret Cameron to Cindy Sherman
Francesca Woodman Page 222
What is shutter speed?
Having very little knowledge of what a shutter speed is we had a group discussion to describe the differences of slow shutter speed and fast shutter speed.On my DSLR on manual mode it is TV in which i was so confused what TV stand for after having the groups discussions i learnt it stands for Time Value lol.I did my own research online to find the simplest meaning and understanding of how the shutter speed works in a camera.Shutter speed is a measurement of time that a camera's shutter is open—allowing light, usually after it has passed through a lens and through the aperture diaphragm, to strike a photosensitive surface, like film or a digital sensor.
The faster the shutter speed, the shorter the time the image sensor is exposed to light; the slower the shutter speed, the longer the time the image sensor is exposed to light. If you are photographing a subject that is in motion, you will get different effects at different shutter speeds.
Artist 1
SLOW SHUTTER SPEED
Francesca Stern Woodman (April 3, 1958 – January 19, 1981) was an American photographer.Taken between 1972 and 1981, Woodman’s photographs are almost all black-and-white and have a general softness of focus not often seen these days. Her photographs feature either herself or female models. Many of her photographs show young women who are nude, blurred (due to movement and long exposure times), merging with their surroundings, or whose faces are obscured.She began shooting photographs at the age of thirteen, using a Yashica twin lens reflex camera given to her by her father a serious camera for somebody that age, a workhorse of a camera, a tool favored by artists. As shown below. Online Reference utata tribal photography. 2006. SUNDAY SALON WITH GREG FALLIS Francesca Woodman.
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| George and Betty Woodman |
Fast Shutter Speed
Artist 2
Darren Glass
Darren Glass Born 1969, Auckland. Studied at The University of Auckland. Exhibited in group and solo shows since 1990, most recently in Symbolist Photography at Fisher Gallery, Auckland (1995) andStenopaeics at The Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, Australia (1995). Published in several magazines and winner of the Gordon Harris Art Award 1993, for the printed image. Lives in Auckland.Though Glass describes himself as a landscape photo-grapher, when you look at the eerie, beautiful images taken with his ingenious Frisbee pinhole camera, you won't recognise any elements of landscape – at least not as you know it. These photos look more like pictures of distant planets taken through a telescope or meteoric events searing the black background of space. |
| Im guessing this picture was taken with a shutter speed.This image is frozen perfectly with time I found it very hard to study and figure out more in detail about this photograph because he uses a pinhole camera and Im not familiar with the process. |
Slow Shutter
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| Darren Glass McNAMARA GALLERY - PHOTOGRAPHY - WANGANUI NEW ZEALAND |
Reference:
http://www.mcnamara.co.nz/glass.htm
| http://rachelkgillies.net/2009/04/16/darren-glass-at-anna-miles-gallery-in-auckland/ |
[ONLINE] Available at: http://www.utata.org/sundaysalon/francesca-woodman/. [Accessed 07 March 16].
Book
14 New Zealand photographers : Darren Glass
Author: John B Turner; PhotoForum Inc.
Publisher: Auckland, N.Z. : PhotoForum, 2008.
Series: PhotoForum, 76.
Women Photographers: From Julia Margaret Cameron to Cindy Sherman
Francesca Woodman Page 222
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