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UMHS Digital Photo of the Week: Speed of Light

A UM High School digital photography student will have his or her artwork displayed here.

Upper Moreland-Willow Grove Patch is proud to present the artwork from Alex Pinguli's Digital Photography class .

This week, the digital photography students exhibit images at different shutter speeds.

 

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This week's artworks: Speed of Light

 

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Photo by  Kurt Lindult (11th grade) - Untitled

Photo by Taylor Carson (12th grade) -   "Falling Wings"

Photo by Carolina Dolando Sanchez (10th grade) "Tunnel of Light"

Photo by Matthew Coutts  (9th period) - Untitled

Photo by Aaron Perry (11th period) - "Space Invaders"

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A lesson in "Shutter Speeds" - by Alex Pinguli:

In this exciting lesson students experimented photographing with various shutter speeds.

The shutter is a set of metallic curtains that opens to allow light to enter through the lens and hit the sensor in the back of the camera.  Adjusting the length of time that the shutter remains open determines how motion is recorded.  Fast shutter speed, for example, freezes motion, wile slow shutter speed can be used blur motion and/or to photograph in low lighting. 

For the images displayed here, very slow shutter speed (three to ten seconds long) was used to photograph various light sources in dark spaces, making them appear to be moving fast.     


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