Blur Action
This assignment was intended to make students more familiar with there cameras, specifically how to create a blur visual affect. Creating a blurred image is done by using a really slow shutter speed so the photo is taken over a longer time and blurs any motion that occurs. There are three different types of blur action photos that students took for this project. They where, traditional blur, panning blur, and experimental blur. Traditional blur is when you have a still subject with a moving subject or subjects near them to demonstrate motion. For her traditional blur action photo Ember took a photo in down town Chagrin Falls. Her main subject is standing next to the Popcorn Shop standing completely still and staring at the camera. Though they are still, the rest of the world including people and cars are still moving. This picture was inspired by the idea of a quiet moment between a stranger in a space where chaos is continuing. This depicts that the world doesn't stop even if it feels like it is going slower. Panning blur is done by having a moving subject with a still background, the camera is moved at about the same speed as the subject to freeze the subject and blur the background. When shooting her panning image Ember took a photo of a young child sliding down a slide. The background and slide are both blurred but the joy of the playing child is captured almost perfectly. Experimental blur is a bit different, it consists of many different types of photos including light drawing, zoom blur and others. Ember decided to do an example of light drawing. She had someone light a stick on fire during a camp fire and then move it around to make different shapes. The shape that she decided to use is alight drawing of a figure eight. For her final blur photo, Ember had her friend stand across the street in Chagrin Falls and waited for cars to drive by. The result appears to be something from a sci fi movie.