Bonus Assignment, Week 6: High ISO, Daylight, and Ultra-fast shutter speeds
All this time we've been focusing on low-light situations, and using high ISO to boost us up to a suitable shutter speed to avoid blur. But high-ISO has a lot more applications than just that - in addition to boosting a blurry 1/4s to a suitable 1/64s, ISO can boost 1/200s to an ultra-fast 1/3200s - fast enough to freeze motion in ways we wouldn't normally imagine or see.
The topic for this week's (optional) assignment is to use your high-ISO ability in bright daylight situations to achieve super fast shutter speeds that can freeze motion.
Assignment Summary:
- Find creative situations where using a very fast shutter speed (faster than 1/1000s) are useful.
- Shoot your pictures at the highest ISO possible. Try to get a shutter speed of 1/1000s at least. 1/2000s or 1/4000s is even better.
- If your camera isn't able to get up this high, you can try to set the exposure compensation (EV or EC, usually denoted by a +/- symbol) to -2, or try using the "Sports" mode on your camera. Make sure you brigthen the image back up afterwards, though.
- Generally you want a moving subject, but some ideas are: sports, dance, running water
- You can play around with flash if you want. How can you use flashes to freeze motion?