Night: extending your shutter speed

What happens at night?

Where do things disappear to when they are hidden by the absence of light?
What is revealed if you look closer and longer?

Richard Avedon talks about how his father taught him the power of light in making a
photograph by using a magnifying glass to burn a leaf from the light of the sun and
how he then went to the beach with a negative of his sister taped to his arm and
came home, peeling it off seeing the sunburn of his sister, knowing that being a
photographer and playing with light meant playing with fire.

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Create a sketchbook page that is dedication to night or darkness. Consider
things that could only be captured at night or could only be documented with
long shutter speeds.
Sketchbook

Consider the mood created visually by your sketchbook page. Consider how
night or low-light photography can create drama, suspense, or dynamism in
photography. (These are not necessarily what you will photograph, just to get
you to think nocturnally)

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Each member of your group will bring in a different light source. You will take
turns taking exploring extended shutter speeds and low-light photography.

Consider light source, movement, mood, action, blur

In Class

You must have at least one of each of the following:

-panning by moving the camera
-frozen action using a strobe
-blurred action by moving the subject or light source
-shadows as a main compositional component

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Shoot a roll of 24 images that explore the use of extended shutter
Homework

speed in order to: capture images in low-light, capture images showing

blurred action or movement of subject or light, explore compositionally
the presence of shadows, explore compositionally the presence of your
photograph’s light source