WEEK 2 - Capture Images

Task

You are going to practice using the exposure triangle to capture the same image in different ways. 

Capture motion Blur

Capturing motion blur this time was more fun. I went to the gym with my colleagues and I took many photos but I'm going to keep this one as example for this Week 2 assessment. 

I stood up on a block to be able to take this photo of Brandon shooting the ball at 1/80 f/2.8 ISO 800 with my favorite lens EF16-35mm f/2.8L III USM - focal length 16.0 I really love the composition and the colors of this photo. Everything is on focus and my slow shutter speed created the motion blur exactly where I wanted, on the ball throwed by my colleague. Motion blur on sports is always fun and unleash my creativity so I'm keen to explore more of this area in the future.

Freezing motion

My friend Chris is a massive NBA fan so it was good to take him away from the studio portraits and photograph him on his element. Apart the barrel aberration (distortion) from my wide angle lens, I reckon this is my favorite pic of this week 2. I love the energy on this photo. This is the kind of photo that speaks by itself. I took my time to edit this photo and I'm happy with the results of the colors and the contrast. I used a 1/400 shutter speed to freeze Chris. He looks sharp and I was on a sort of low angle when I took this picture of him that's why he looks huge. Shot on Canon EOS 5D Mark IV, EF16-35mm f/2.8L III USM, f/2.8 1/400 ISO 3200 focal length 16.0

Panning

Not your classic photo of panning a car on the street, this shot of Brandon was a bit tricky but I think I managed to show the panning technique. Even tough Brandon is moving fast, he still sharp and the background has motion blur. Lots of time consuming to get this shot. My bad I forgot the tripod! I set up my camera to Shutter Speed priority ( I used 1/30 for this photograph) and use continuous AF while I was trying to track him during the sequence. Settings: Canon EOS 5D Mark IV, EF16-35mm f/2.8L III USM, f/2.8 1/30 ISO 200 focal length 16.0

Thanks for reading!