Experiment-Jump Around

This experiment was with my Nan's dog called Billy who is very energetic. For this experiment, I kicked a ball up into the air and as it was mid-air, I took photos of him as the ball fell so that I would take a photo of Billy catching the ball.

My first problem with this experiment is that some of the garden was shaded and so I had to stay away from the shaded area and into the sun so that I could use a faster shutter speed and the image would be clearer.

Another problem was that I was on a hill and so the ball would bounce downwards, this meant that Billy would run away from me and so I wouldn't get a good photo. I overcame this by standing at the bottom of the hill and took photos from there.

Another problem was that Billy would run away from me to chase the ball so I couldn't get a very good picture. I overcame this by setting up my camera on a tripod with a timer so that I could concentrate more on kicking the ball into the view of the camera to get a better, steady photo with Billy facing the camera.

However, this meant that not all of Billy was in the picture so I didn't use this method a lot.

My next problem was that some of the photos were out of focus. This is because I didn't have a lot of time to focus between me kicking the ball and the ball hitting the ground as Billy tries to catch it. My camera was on automatic focus which took some time to focus on Billy which meant that I had to take a picture before the camera had properly focused on Billy but had focused on the background. To solve this, I focused the camera on Billy before I kicked the ball in the air and didn't let go of the shutter so that it wouldn't focus on anything else. I would then kick the ball and point the camera at Billy to get a focused picture.

                                     

I enjoyed doing this experiment a lot because I learnt a lot for the next experiments and my final outcome and how to take photos of something whilst it is moving quickly. I thought I got some good photos from doing this experiment and I was generally pleased with the outcome.