Hey guys! Welcome back to the Newbie Chronicles!
Today, we continues to explore the exposure triangle and talk about Shutter Speed.
your Shutter Speed determines the amount of time your shutter remains open when you take your photo.
Therefore, the longer your shutter stays open, the more light comes in. Combinations of Shutter Speed and Aperture can work together to help you control your exposure. Or, how light or dark a photo is.
Another thing that your shutter speed helps you to control, is showing or freezing motion.
For example:
In this photo, I used shutter speed to show motion. I wanted you to see the motion of Pookah tuning the pages. So I lowered my shutter speed.
Settings: Shutter Speed 1/20, F/4.0 and ISO 3200
And in this photo, I wanted to freeze motion. So I used a higher shutter speed to capture Pookah in mid swing!
Settings: Shutter Speed 1/125 F 5.6 ISO 100
So that is my short lesson on the basics (very BASICS) of shutter speed. Stay tuned next week when I talk about ISO and we put it all together.
rosesdaughter
Saturday 18th of February 2012
Yes! Make it work! ( in my Time Gun voice!). Take that camera off of manual!!!
Cam - Bibs & Baubles
Friday 17th of February 2012
you just going to make me take this camera off auto, huh? keep it coming. i'm loving these posts!
rosesdaughter
Saturday 18th of February 2012
Yes, TAKE IT OFF AUTO!!!!
Dr. Reginia
Friday 17th of February 2012
I love photography. I want to get into it more once I take some of these elements off my plate. Pookah is going to have tons of photos for his memory books.
rosesdaughter
Saturday 18th of February 2012
That's my hope! I'm actually going to try and print everything out this year! AND last years pictures. I have waaaay too many floating around on my hard drive!
RhapsodyDiva
Thursday 16th of February 2012
I'm loving these segments on the blog. I have a Fuji "point and shoot" with manual options that I'm practicing on. I need to knock the dust off my Canon Rebel and really get into messing with aperture, shutter speed and ISO. You gonna make me take a leisure class on photography to up my skills. But where will I find the time? *sigh*
rosesdaughter
Saturday 18th of February 2012
Thanks! Stay tuned! More to come!
adrienne
Thursday 16th of February 2012
Very good way of describing it!!!
rosesdaughter
Saturday 18th of February 2012
Thanks! I'm trying to make these posts as simple as possible. there is so much more to say, but I just want to cover basics!