In this shoot I set up a mask on a stool with a black background which did not work that well, as to show the blurring technique. To show the technique you need details in both foreground and background in order for the camera to blur. If you don't the image just looks like a bad case of camera shake. They way in which you do this is by having the exposure open for a period of time then from begin zoomed in you have to quickly zoom out which creates a blur coming from the centre of the image.
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| So this was my first attempt. It was interesting that the mask has eye holes and the zoom technique made it look like the eyes were closed. The camera was on a tripod with a two second exposure and I zoomed in while taking the picture. |
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| Once I had taken the plain background away to reveal trees in the background the shot started to work much better. See below. This was a 2 second exposure with the camera on a tripod and I zoomed throughout the exposure. I did this in manual mode to give me control over aperture, speed and ISO. |
I re-visited this latter on in the day and experimented with the subject moving rather than me zooming and got this effects. To achieve this I had the camera with open with a longer shutter speed of two seconds. This allowed for the correct level of light to get to though the camera and create this blurred affect seen bellow. This blur is blur due to movement of the model which in some cases works very well and also creates an interesting affect.
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| Here we see I have got the model to violently shake their head and the light captured by the camera has made it so we can see two positions of the head clearly allowing for one of them to look calm and peaceful looking to the left and the other face looking violent and demonic facing towards the camera. |
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| This image was of more of the body. This allowed for there to be less control over the face because we can see less of it. Here the image isn't as strong as the above but it still works to show blur in an image. |
Tom aesthetically you have achieved some strong outcomes, I think however you need to expand on your analysis and detail your working process a little more... e.g. lighting, equipment and so on, What did you hope to achieve and how might you improve and develop the work further.?
ReplyDeleteTom, there are no camera settings in this post which is important for explaining how blur is recorded. please can you address this? Also there are a number of spelling errors, please address.. Finally great shots on this post.. but no description of what the images connote to.. please can you address?
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