Chike Eduputa CVE Media Photography - IOP A4 Shutter Speeds

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SCENE 1: NIGHTTIME, STATIC SHOT, MOVING OBJECTS, SLOW SHUTTER SPEEDS

EQUIPMENT USED

Canon EOS R5
Canon 70-200 F2.8 L IS USM

SCENE SET UP

Watching a fire show in the night.
The shot was framed with the performer at the centre.

CAMERA SET UP

Set the Camera Mode to Manual
Set the Aperture to the widest at F2.8
Set the ISO to 800
Set the focus length to 70mm
Captured shots at various shutter speeds

OBSERVATIONS & REFLECTIONS

Photo [1] at 1/50 captured the performer at the sharpest level, although the fire sword had motion blur.
Photos [1] 1/50 to [4] 1/15 still showed the outline of the fire sword, although it was increasingly blurry.
Photos [5] 1/13 to [11] 1.3s added increasingly significant blur to the performer and fire sword.
Photos [11] 1.3s completely blurred the performer and fire sword into one big bright circle.

As the shutter speeds became even slower, I struggled to capture handheld shots and would have needed a tripod to continue testing at even slower shutter speeds.

[1] 1/50, F2.8, ISO 800, 70mm

[2] 1/40, F2.8, ISO 800, 70mm

[3] 1/30, F2.8, ISO 800, 70mm

[4] 1/15, F2.8, ISO 800, 70mm

[5] 1/13, F2.8, ISO 800, 70mm

[6] 1/10, F2.8, ISO 800, 70mm

[7] 1/8, F2.8, ISO 800, 70mm

[8] 1/5, F2.8, ISO 800, 70mm

[9] 3/10, F2.8, ISO 800, 70mm

[10] 4/5, F2.8, ISO 800, 70mm

[11] 1.3, F2.8, ISO 800, 70mm

SCENE 2: DAYTIME, DYNAMIC SHOT, MOVING OBJECTS, SLOW SHUTTER SPEEDS

EQUIPMENT USED

Canon EOS R5
Canon 70-200 F2.8 L IS USM

SCENE SET UP

Taking shots of a busy market from a rooftop restaurant.
Framed the shot around key subjects, a performing band and two men talking at the centre.

CAMERA SET UP

Set the Camera Mode to Manual
For the first group of shots of the performing band, I varied the aperture from F2.8 to F8.
I set the Aperture to F22 for the two men talking to decrease the amount of light reaching the lens.
Set the ISO to 100-200
Varied the focus length to zoom and frame the subjects|
The shots were captured at various shutter speeds.

OBSERVATIONS & REFLECTIONS

Photo [1] at 1/160 captured the performer at the sharpest level, although the fire sword had motion blur.
Photos [1] 1/50 to [4] 1/15 still showed the outline of the fire sword, although it was increasingly blurry.
Photos [5] 1/13 to [11] 1.3s added increasingly significant blur to the performer and fire sword.
Photos [11] 1.3s completely blurred the performer and fire sword into one big bright circle.

As the shutter speeds became even slower, I struggled to capture handheld shots and would have needed a tripod to continue testing at even slower shutter speeds.

[1] 1/160, F2.8, ISO 200, 200mm

[2] 1/8, F3.2, ISO 100, 163mm

[3] 1/4, F4, ISO 100, 163mm

[4] 1/2, F8, ISO 100, 163mm

[5] 3/5, F22, ISO 100, 95mm

[6] 1.3s, F22, ISO 100, 95mm

SCENE 3: NIGHTTIME, DYNAMIC SHOT, MOVING OBJECTS, SLOW SHUTTER SPEEDS

EQUIPMENT USED

Canon EOS R5
Canon 70-200 F2.8 L IS USM

SCENE SET UP

I stayed at the same location for Scene 2 until the nighttime to see the difference in the same location. I was taking shots of a busy market from the same rooftop restaurant. I framed the shot around the general busy market activity with no specific subject as the focus.

CAMERA SET UP

Set the Camera Mode to Manual
Most of the shots were taken with an F2.8 aperture except Photo [6], which was set to F8.
Most of the shots were taken with an ISO 200 aperture except Photo [5], which was set to ISO 100.
Most of the shots were taken with a zoom length of 70mm except Photo [6], which was set to 200mm.
The shots were captured at various shutter speeds.

OBSERVATIONS & REFLECTIONS

The first comparison I made was between Photo [1] at 1/10 and Photo [2] at 1/4. Photo [2] had much more blur than Photo [1], including slow-moving objects.

The second comparison was Photo [3] and Photo [4]. Both had the same shutter speed, but I introduced zoom blur in [4] by rotating the zoom lens.

The third comparison was Photo [5] at 1.3s and Photo [6] at 3.2s. Whilst some objects in the frame were still visible in Photo [5], Photo [6] completely blurred the entire scene.

[1] 1/10, F2.8, ISO 200, 70mm

[2] 1/4, F2.8, ISO 200, 70mm

[3] 1/5, F2.8, ISO 200, 70mm

[4] 1/5, F2.8, ISO 200, 70mm

[5] 1.3s, F2.8, ISO 100, 70mm

[6] 3.2s, F8, ISO 200, 200mm

SCENE 4: DAYTIME, DYNAMIC SHOT, MOVING OBJECTS, FAST SHUTTER SPEEDS

EQUIPMENT USED

Canon EOS R5
Canon 70-200 F2.8 L IS USM

SCENE SET UP

Taking shots of a busy market from a rooftop restaurant.
Framed the shot around the tower with the busy market at the middle half and third of the frame.

CAMERA SET UP

Set the Camera Mode to Manual
I fixed the Aperture to F8 and the ISO to 200.
I varied the focus length to zoom and frame the image.
The shots were captured at various high shutter speeds from 1/1250 to 1/160.
I took the photos in both portrait and landscape orientation.

OBSERVATIONS & REFLECTIONS

Photo [1] at 1/1250 was able to freeze all the motion in the image, including the sky clouds, birds, smoke from the market, and people walking by.
Although Photo [2] at 1/400 was still able to freeze the motion, the sky clouds, smoke, and trees in the background are not as sharp as in Photo [1].
Photo [3] at 1/1250, Photo [4] at 1/1000, Photo [5] at 1/800 and Photo [6] at 1/160 were captured in portrait orientation and as the shutter speed was reduced, the level of detail in the sky clouds, people walking through the market reduced whilst the image brightness increased slightly.