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encouraging suggestions and feedback.Assignment
Freeze the action successfully
This assignment is about pushing the settings on your camera and capturing and freezing fast
action. Once you capture a photograph of action you are happy with, share it on the website.
As you prepare for this assignment, remember that the controls for setting the exposure are
always the same: shutter speed, aperture, and ISO. When two are unchangeable, you have to
adjust the third. In low light, to freeze the action, the shutter speed can’t be changed as it needs
to be high enough to freeze the action, and the aperture should be set at the lens’s widest allow-
ing the maximum light to reach the sensor. That just leaves the ISO, so it has to be the one that
you adjust.
For this assignment, I decided to photograph a local high school football game from the sidelines,
and with the bright lights on the field, exposure didn’t look like it would be a problem. However,
when the players began to run, I noticed that the shutter speed I started out with was too slow.
My aperture was already at the maximum for the f/2.8 lens I was using. That only left the ISO,
which I raised until I could use a 1/500 second shutter speed and still get a good exposure.