I Can Do That!: 12 Weeks to Better Photos Week 2

This week's lesson was on ISO and Shutter Speed. ISO is the film speed. "ISO, or film speed, is really just a setting to determine how quickly an image will be captured by either the film or digital sensor. The higher the ISO, the quicker the image will be captured and the less light that is required. The lower the ISO, the longer it takes for the image to be captured and the more light you will need. " "Your shutter speed is how quickly the shutter, or the little door that opens in front of your film or image sensor, operates. It can range from several seconds (or minutes on the Bulb setting) to 1/1600 of a second or faster. It might help to visualize your shutter literally as a door, with your shutter speed controlling how fast or how slow the door opens and closes" http://www.twopeasinabucket.com/class_pdfs/photocourse/weektwo.pdf

For the photographs this week, we were to take two pictures. One with a low shutter speed, such as 1/80 and one with a high shutter speed. Since I was inside with bad lighting, I set my ISO to 1600. The assignment was to take a picture of water flowing from a faucet over an object that would interrupt the flow. I was really excited about this project after seeing sample pictures. Unfortunately, I wasn't very happy with the end results of my pictures since, as I mentioned, I was dealing with bad lighting. The window over our kitchen sink is really small and the sun never really gave great light. I ended up going upstairs to our master bath. The problem there was the faucet is really close to the side of the tub, and thus didn't give a good flow of water over my cup. I ended up letting the water fill the cup and spill over. So, without further adieu (or excuses) here are my pictures...