So...my get pushed challenge from @stephomy was to "slow down your shutter speed and capture some blurred movement." Well, even though I don't have a way of directly setting shutter speed on my camera, I have had some very slight success in the past with artificially forcing it by setting other things. The slowest shutter speed my camera is capable of is 1 second. Anyway...I had, in the past captured some motion on spinning car wheels on the street, and I thought that would be boring to do again -- surely I could find something more interesting! I thought I'd go out to the tubes at Tuttle Creek Dam where the water is let through. If I went later in the day and set the camera at 100 ISO maybe I could get something.
It was cold. The water wasn't coming through with too great a force, and it's a really unattractive color. I didn't bring a tripod. I could see almost immediately that this was going to be a bust. But I did, gamely, take a bunch of pictures. I also turned to the gulls swooping around, hoping to catch their wings in motion. But I had trouble just catching them, period. My camera only has 4x optical zoom, so the gulls looked pretty small in all the shots, not in focus, mostly in a glide at the point at which I pressed the shutter, and half the time barely in frame. AND my fingers were getting cold taking these terrible shots. Dang!
In the end, as I was leaving, I stopped the car up near the entrance to Tuttle Creek Blvd and stood near the side of the road -- yep, you guessed it, I went back to photographing cars, only this time they were going faster than the city street where I'd captured wheels in motion...
Continued here: http://365project.org/mcsiegle/365/2015-01-04
Sounds a lot like my experiences with that type of camera. Still, I wanted to push the limits of what I could do with it. I did pull off something that could be call light writing. http://365project.org/stephomy/365/2014-02-07
@jess1204 It's the new year now, Jessica. Jump on in, the challenges can be fun and you get to know different people's work that you might not have before.
January 7th, 2015
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