Transistion project tasks - Popular Photography Techniques

High-speed photography records fast moving objects and can show an audience things that aren’t normally visible to the naked eye. Photographers will shorten the shutter speed and use a flash to achieve the images.  People have shot apples being smashed and documented how they burst apart, water balloons have been popped with pins and animals shaking there wet fur dry. I think it’s quite a popular thing to do because the results can be striking. Sports photographers use high-speed photography for fast pace motor races. Scientists use it to look at gravitational effects and surface tension. High-speed photography is used by a wide range of artists to show things in a different and rarely explored form. 

Example:

Photographer Perou went to Mukuru, Nairobi to help photograph the charity Oxfam’s water and sanitation project. A group of volunteers set up a make shift studio in a village and threw water up in the air over the children that lived there. I think the set of images make a serious situation quite joyful and it’s as if it has given then children a break from reality for a while. It might numb the reality for people living in western countries such as the US, Sweden, France and the UK; but it gives the charity a positive outlook, which will attract people and encourage them to donate. Pictures of happy children make the charity look like they are improving the lives of the families, which they are.

The pictures themselves are full of energy. They have been captured at high speed in order to retain the natural movement of the water and the children simultaneously. The blue color choice of the background may represent clean water and be to be bold and to attract people. 

More information about the shoot: http://www.oxfam.org.uk/blogs/2013/08/a-day-with-perou