Action, distraction

This semester, I'm taking a photo class. The class itself is a lot harder than I thought it would be, but I'm learning a lot. I feel my photography has improved immensely over the course of this class. I love knowing how to manipulate my camera to take really awesome and different pictures.

The assignment: Action and shutter speed.
What I had to do was use a slow shutter speed to show motion happening and a fast shutter speed to stop action. I thought the best place for this would be at a playground.

The slow shutter speed was really difficult. Thankfully my subject, my wonderful sister Katelyn, shares my love of photography so we could put our heads together and come up with something great. My original idea was to take a picture of her sliding down a slide. However, that didn't work out quite as great as it seemed in my head. After trying a few different things, she came up with the idea of doing something with her running. I made her run over that bridge about a thousand times. I think she was happy to be finished after that one.
This is what we came up with:


It also looked pretty neat in colour, but for the class, we're learning how to use edit in black and white, so this is what I turned in. The grade: A-

With the stop-motion photo, the concept was easy, but getting the right shot was hard. I made her jump off that swing 923843470329 times, and I think she was starting to get annoyed with me. I was also getting annoyed with the crowd of children that were gathered around asking, "What are you doing?" I really hate children.

I had to lie on the ground to get that shot. I really like this one, except for the lighting. It made my sister into a dark blob. But, that lighting is the sun, and there was nothing that I could do about it. Oh well. The grade: B+