Movement and Experimenting with Light

In all of these photos I was testing out how different shutter speeds, Apertures and different forms of movement would affect the final outcome of the photo.

In these first two pictures even though the final effect is very interesting and complex, when the photo was actually taken it was taken very simply. I started by finding a light, once I found the light I focused on it and set the shutter speed to 10 seconds, this was to give me enough time to capture all of the light, my aperture was also very low so I didn't capture a lot of the background and mainly focused on the light trail. Instead of moving the light like a lot of people do I moved the camera to get the certain shape and pattern which is shown.

In these last two photos I wanted to test out how a lighter would affect the final out come from a slow shutter speed. Unfortunately the final outcome wasn't how I expected but still captured the full light movement and details. An effect that came out which I didn't expect was the movement of the hand and how the hand has smudged creating multiple images. Like the ones above I used a low aperture so only the lighter was the thing people focus on and there wasn't any of the background which could distract the viewer, for this I had the shutter speed a little bit faster, I was on for only 5 seconds.

The photos above were taken while driving down the road in a car, I did this by pointing the camera out of a window on a 10-15 second shutter speed. Before taking the photo I didn’t know what effect the lights were going to give, I knew the light was going to smudge and create different effects but I didn't know it was going to create an electrical light feel. An effect that I like but wasn't supposed to come out is the speed sign in the last photo, I like this because of the view you get of it, you can see the pattern but you really have to focus on it to find out what it actually is. For these photos I had the aperture higher than the others because even though I wanted the main light trails to be the main focus I also wanted to give the viewer a clue to what it actually was or where the lights were actually coming from. Although a bad this about this is because I have had a higher aperture the light trails are brighter and sometime are completely white which doesn’t give me the full effect of the light trails.