Our assignment for this week was to experiment with the camera's various flash settings. I took three sets of pictures. The first set used manual settings and the long shutter feature -- without benefit of flash -- at about 7:30 p.m. -- with a different ISO and length of exposure for each photo. The last shot in the series allowed 15 seconds of exposure and is completely white because it was shot at 1600 ISO.
The second set of photos I took used the camera's Night Photo scene mode. These were the best quality shots that I got the whole evening (but of course, the settings are entirely automatic!).
The last set of pictures was taken with the long shutter feature again, but this time with the flash on. It was about 8:15 p.m. Some were taken with the camera held still, and the rest were taken while moving the camera a little bit. For this last set, I again varied the ISO but held the exposure time constant at 1 second.
I was a little confused about this assignment (that is, what all I was trying to accomplish) and am not entirely certain even now that I did it correctly. I did achieve the various effects -- freezing the [jumping] action; creating the swoosh-y continuous action illusions of jumping/running; and getting the lightning-type effect of the camera moved slightly while taking a picture. But I didn't catch on to a rationale for using these effects deliberately, and I am far from feeling I have any kind of control over the results I attain while using them. One thing that I do know for sure is that my use of the techniques in this assignment did not result in the art-y effects that were shown in the links posted to our course's Blackboard page!
You can see my very patient hubby jumping from a retaining wall in the back yard -- and then sprinting past me in the front yard -- (over and over and OVER again!!) here.
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