Shutter Priority Pre-Assignment

We used Eadweard Muybridge as an example for this assignment- catching moving objects as they moved. Eadweard Muybridge was born April 9th, 1830 in England. Leland Stanford hired him to take pictures of horses to settle of dispute over whether or not they lift all four legs at the same time while running. He started studying movement and wanted to find a way to try to capture it in a still image. He died on May 8th, 1908.


For this assignment we were told to set our camera on TV and to manually focus our camera onto the spot that the subject was going to be in. We were going to jump of f of things and attempt to capture each other suspended in mid air. We were then expected to run around like idiots. The goal was to get a crisp but still slightly blurry picture of the subject.

(Image and info credit: http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/exhibition/eadweard-muybridge )