New PICoS Challenge!
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Jun 24, 2008, 6:11:39 AM6/24/08
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Greetings fellow Light-Painters!
Hope you all had a great week or two, with
the previous PICoS challenge titled "Shadows"
where, hopefully, everyone's creative juices were encouraged to flow, and that you managed to capture some interesting pictures with compositions that "tell a story". I would like to use this opportunity to, especially, thank Sophie for her
participation and contribution of photos in each and
every of the previous PICoS Challenges - it's fantastic to see her
enthusiasm.
This is what makes PICoS go
forward! The members that participate make it worthwhile for the organisers and for the rest of the members who, hopefully, learn by seeing alternative perspectives of a given theme. Furthermore, I hope
that this will also encourage more and more members to take an active part in the PICoS
challenges to come.
It is important to remember that these challenges are NOT competitions among members. The
word "challenge" is used rather in the sense that is encourages each member to challenge and improve oneself. A challenge to think
out of the box, and to really SEE and
THINK, what
is worthwhile to capture with a camera, and how to capture it, in order to create an aesthetically pleasing photographic composition. Ultimately, bearing in mind the actual theme and type of challenge, one should also ask "why am I taking this picture?", and that should help one's thought processes get started in order to achieve pleasing results.
And so, without further delays, let me present to you the next challenge!
'PICoS Challenge: Shutterspeed
(Technical)'
Shutter speed (S or Tv) is one of the most important features
on your camera, because, together with aperture and ISO speed, it controls the amount of light that enters via the lens onto
the sensor chip or film. More specifically, it refers to the length of time during which shutter stays open for an exposure. As an illustration, consider filling a glass with running water from a tap. If the size of the glass represented the ISO speed and how wide open the tap was represented Aperture, then Shutter Speed would be represented by how long the tap was left running. The longer the tap remains turned on, the fuller our glass would become.
The following links provide some great examples of pictures taken with specific shutter speeds in order to achieve specific effects:
Now that your interest is piqued, here are some guidelines on how shutter speed works:
Now that your interest is piqued, here are some guidelines on how shutter speed works:
So, for the weeks of
24 June to 4 July, go out and play around with your shutter-speed. Remember: Aperture will have a big effect on how
your photos will come out. And above all: you do not have
to wait for the ideal weather to do it! See the above
links for great
examples.
Everyone: PLEASE take photos, post it on your Picasa (or
any other web-album) and let us know when you have done so, so that we may post your links onto the LightPainters forum and thus encourage members to provide feedback. For those looking for more of a challenge try take a
picture with a long exposure with your lens wide open!
:-D
And to close off this email, a short
news-update to everyone who is interested: the church I belong to ("Stellenbosch Gemeente") also has a photography club, which is
very active with regular events each
month. For this month, they have asked a representative of
Stellenbosch Academy of Design and Photography (who offers photography and
graphic design courses, amongst others), to organise
a photography event for us. The
event /
theme is "Foto-jag /
Photography Hunt" (similiar to what we did in Franschhoek earlier this year).
But this one will occur in
Stellenbosch itself. It will start off with a meeting on Friday-night, 27 June 2008 (18:00 to
20:00), where Henk (of Stellenbosch
Academy) will explain the "rules / challenges / ideas". The actual photography
event will start the next day: Saturday, 28
June 2008 (whole day event). And finally, everyone's photography efforts
will then be discussed / critiqued by
Henk himself at end of the day (18:00 to 21:00),
and we will end up with a "bring and
braai" event. Everyone is welcome!
Please indicate if you are interested in
this event by responding before end of Thursday, 26 June 2008, so that we can get a rough
idea of people, and organise for a bigger location (for the photo evaluation and braai
event).
And that is it, all from me! The rest is now up to
you....
Have a nice
day,
Thys
Home Page: http://groups.google.com/group/lightpainter
Email: picos.lig...@gmail.com
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