Read the remaining pages of Chapter 1
The exercise is outlined on pages 30 & 31
There are 2 parts to this exercise

A) with a stationery subject

B) a moving subject.


A) Creatively correct exposure using Apeture (DOF) on a stationery subject (doesn't have to be a person - use a doll, a watering can, a toy etc)

Manual please
> select your ISO (for your conditions)
> Select lowest apeture setting
> find the SS
> take the shot
> repeat increasing apeture for each shot.

Hint: have a little distance between your subject & background - it will show the DOF better.

B) Creatively correct exposure using SS on a moving subject (water, someone twirling a ribbon, a spinning top, anything that moves )
> select your ISO (for your conditions)
> select a SLOW SS (start around 1/8 sec)
> find the ap
> take the shot
> repeat increasing SS for each shot

Hint: you may need the trusty tripod for the slow SS here - or set the camera on a stable surface & use the timer.

POST: 4 shots for each exercise & please post the settings

here are my photos for this week. Not sure if i got it right?


ISO100 F/29 1/6


ISO100 F16 1/20


ISO100 F/8 1/80


ISO100 F/36 1/6


ISO100 F/8 1/100


ISO100 F/4.5 1/320

Hi everyone,

Here's my photo's, the moving object, not done the stationary ones as yet. Went to Rockingham race day today which gave me a task and a half!!

Louise - love your bike photo's very imaginative

hope I've got the right idea - look forward to hearing your comments

Louise #2

sorry but you're gonna have to go to the link as still not got the hang of this!!

http://photobucket.com/LouiseThompson

Well done both of you, you can clearly see the movement produced using the lower shutter speeds. You managed to get some great creative shots.

Louise 1 as you can see from your leaf photos the first 2 had very low shutter speeds and therefore you can see there are blur on the leaves. Remember the idea of this exercise was to understand how to use your shutter creatively to achieve different effects.

If you want to prevent blur on a stationary subject the rule is to keep the shutter speed at double the focal length of your lens, and remember to achieve the photographic triangle at all times to hit the exposure correctly.

http://s954.photobucket.com/albums/ae29 ... 0Week%203/

Hi Everyone

Here are my photo's for this week. I've attached the link again, as I have about 10 photo's to view. If you click on each of the photo's you can see my exif data.

Bridget - I didn't quite do my Legoland photo's as you suggested, but I think I got the desired effect. Hope all these photo's are OK.

Great examples Sam. When you try this again how about trying to adjust your shutter speed upwards to see what different effects you can get.

Hi everyone,

Here are my photos for this week with a bit of a toy theme ... full size images are also on Flickr.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sjminshull ... 431993136/

I took all of the photos with a tripod so I haven't always used shutter speeds of at least twice the focal length of the lens ... I hope that's ok?

Moving subject


Windmill ISO 100 f/16 1/40


Windmill ISO 100 f/11 1/80


Windmill ISO 100 f/8 1/160


Windmill ISO 100 f/4 1/640

Stationary Subject


Teddy Bears ISO 100 f/22 8 secs


Teddy Bears ISO 100 f/4 1/4

I particularly enjoyed playing around with the windmill!

Great windmill shots Sam and a clear example of creative movement. As you can see the real creativness comes in when the shutter speed changes, almost a total blur at Shutter 40 and you have managed to freeze the movement when using Shutter much faster at 640.

test -