Beginner’s Photography: Basic Camera Use and Theory
Moving Subjects
A course by Giulia Candussi , Photojournalist and Documentary Filmmaker
About the video: Moving Subjects
Overview
“To photograph moving subjects, the way you want and not the way the camera wants, you need to master the shutter speed. ”
In this video lesson Giulia Candussi addresses the topic: Moving Subjects, which is part of the Domestika online course: Beginner’s Photography: Basic Camera Use and Theory. Learn how to use a digital camera and its settings to start taking high-quality photos.
Partial transcription of the video
“Moving Subjects. In this lesson we're gonna play with different types of shutter speeds. So have you ever tried to take a picture of your dog or your child or anything that moves? That can be a bit tricky. So we'll see what's the difference when we have really fast shutter speed or we have a very slow shutter speed. We have our model again, Charlie, and she's gonna help us by doing a couple of moves and see what happens, what's the result on the camera. Now we're gonna try to achieve the freezing effect. I've set up the camera to a very fast shutter speed, in this case 2000, but you can pla...”
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Course summary for: Beginner’s Photography: Basic Camera Use and Theory
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Digital Photography, Photographic Composition, Photography

Giulia Candussi
A course by Giulia Candussi
Giulia Candussi is an Italian photojournalist based in Scotland with over a decade of experience in producing photo reportages about human rights, environmental issues, and cultural identity. It was during her studies in International Relations (Bologna University, Italy) where she discovered the field of photo-reportage and the impact it could have on the world. Passionate about expressing her vision, she went on to study a Master’s in Photojournalism in London.
Giulia has collaborated with local media and international news agencies such as Getty Images and her work was published on La Repubblica, L’Espresso, The Guardian, Huffington Post, US Weekly, and more. She has traveled extensively in Europe and the Americas, also working with non-governmental organizations. As a documentary filmmaker, she has produced “Upstream” and “Hogar”. Currently, she produces “Van Life”, a documentary series for BBC Scotland’s “The Social”. Her work has been exhibited in èStoria, international history festival (Gorizia, 2011) and Photomonth, international photography festival (London, 2010), Centro Culturale Candiani (Venice Mestre, 2015), at the art gallery Storie Contemporanee (Rome, Italy 2017), and more.
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