How to Control A Camera

There are three ways in which you are able to control a camera manually these are:

 1. ISO

               2. Shutter Speed

        3. Aperture 

There are also two types of ISO these are both high and low. When your ISO has high sensitivity, the settings then must be adjusted to about 1600 or 3200. However, when the ISO is a lower sensitivity, the setting is at a better quality when the camera is set to 100 or 200.

There is a setting on the Canon Camera's where you can identify a 'TV' button. This stands for Time Variant and this setting is often used as a Shutter speed leaving a fraction of a second which is 1/100. These fractions can be changed around and you can experiment with different kinds of settings. 

On the Camera, this is also a setting button written as AV which controls Aperture Variant. This works more like an eye. When you are in the dark, your iris expands meaning more space for the light to get through. However, when you are already exposed to a lot of light, your iris becomes smaller gradually only allowing a certain amount of light through. Quite similar to how an AV setting works. The Aperture is measured into F Stops.

I experimented myself with a few pictures and tried learning how to use Panning, Shutter Zoom and Blurred Motion.

Panning and Frozen Motion

To create the effect of having a moving object in focus and having the background give off blurred, I set my camera shutter speed to 1/40. I put my ISO on 100 as it was day time. When finally ready to capture, I had to hold the shutter whilst following the moving object. So I could still have it in focus. 

In class, Sue had us all have a go at attempting to capture moving images as a still so we set up a couple of things in the studio and began experimenting. Here are a few images I managed to capture when attempting this experiment. 

To achieve these pictures, I used the Time Variant setting, changing the IOS to 400 and the Fs.d to 5.6. This then controls the amount of light that has been allowed to enter the lens. I experimented a little bit with the exposure too and changed the time to 1/800 which controls how long the shutter is open for. For this set up, we had a bowl of strawberries and used two spot lights one focusing on the side of the bowl and one directed on the other side of the bowl to allow us to capture the water. I used a fast shutter speed for these shots which were 1/400 mainly because I was experimenting with different speeds. My lens was 50mm and my F-Stop was set to 4.0.

Blurred Motion

Motion blur is used to add artistic flair to an image. It is achieved by focusing on a location or place and assuring that it stays in the camera's focus. Whilst, a moving  object crosses the focused area. This keeps the original setting in focus and blurs whatever movement the new object has made. To achieve my blurred motion shot, I left my shutter speed and ISO on the same and I adjusted the shutter from time to time experimenting with different pictures.